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...years of age, anyone in a household who has contact with kids younger than 6 months old, health-care workers who have direct patient contact and all kids ages 5 to 18 who have underlying medical problems. "[Prioritization] is a very important step for planning vaccinations in the fall," says Anne Schuchat, director for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. The elderly, who usually get first dibs on seasonal flu shots, are conspicuously missing from this list because they have so far been much more resistant to the H1N1/09 strain than young children. (See pictures of thermal scanners...
Former U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, former Obama presidential campaign senior advisor Stephanie Cutter, and Wall Street Journal columnist and Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan headline the Institute of Politics' fall lineup of resident and visiting fellows announced Thursday...
...don’t mean to say that you should be skipping sections that are graded on participation or lectures where you’ll have to take notes. But you will find that many of your classes don’t fall into either of these categories. And in a 9 a.m. class that you’re probably going to doze off a bit in anyway...who’s to say that you wouldn’t be better off getting a few extra hours of shut-eye in your...
...These shortcomings of the “lame-duck” UC should be remedied by reconvening representatives from the previous year each fall. Certainly, this system of representation has its pitfalls: Houses with senior representatives last year would lack a direct voice on the Council, and last year’s freshman representatives would now live in Houses instead of the Yard. But even such an imperfect solution seems superior to a system that deprives students of representation altogether. Since UC efforts often continue through the summer and into the following year, an interim assembly could easily focus...
...streets of Kabul were eerily quiet on Thursday, as polls for Afghanistan's second presidential election since the fall of the Taliban opened to little fanfare and even smaller crowds. Children, taking advantage of the trafficless streets, flew kites. Watermelon sellers languished in the shade of their carts waiting for a sale. The only customers were police, who were stationed at every intersection to inspect the few vehicles that passed their way. Kabul residents had been spooked by Wednesday's curious lack of violence and were apprehensive that the Taliban had planned something big for voting day. They were right...