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Your interesting article on swine flu notes the bizarre fact that the virus is spreading more in Britain than other European countries [Aug. 24]. No one knows why. But in Britain, anyone can phone the government's special flu line and say that they have a cough and fever. A member of the nonclinical staff will issue a week off work and a free packet of Tamiflu. Rumors of abuse are rife. Still baffled? Dr. Marcus Lester, BENFLEET, ENGLAND...
Correction included: An earlier version of this post stated that gas had been turned off to Quincy House. In fact, Old Quincy does not have a direct gas supply. In addition, the main that supplies Quincy House is not the source of the leak, so it did not need to be turned off, according to Cambridge Fire Department Deputy Chief Francis E. Murphy...
Correction included: An earlier version of this story stated that gas had been turned off to Quincy House. In fact, Old Quincy does not have a direct gas supply. In addition, the main that supplies Quincy House is not the source of the leak, so it did not need to be turned off, according to Cambridge Fire Department Deputy Chief Francis E. Murphy...
...original version of the Sept. 13 news article “Her Campus Launches Online” incorrectly stated that the online women’s magazine Her Campus was started by three undergraduates. In fact, a fourth, Kelly J. Peeler '10, was involved in the magazine’s creation...
...while it’s always been a peculiar fact that the American people love and crave the same type of royalty their republic was created to reject, there is certainly something different about the way the media treats the current First Lady. Unlike Lady Bird, Pat, Betty, Rosalynn, Nancy, Barbara, Hillary, and Laura before her, Michelle is not just another political wife to be scrutinized excessively—she has been assigned the Jackie mystique, forced to represent the reincarnation of Camelot when she is in fact an emblem of an entirely different sort of era?...