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...according to officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which issued new guidelines Friday, Aug. 7, for grades kindergarten through 12, preventing H1N1 infections should begin with less drastic measures: frequent hand-washing and coughing into sleeves (not hands), and keeping all children with flu symptoms at home. The CDC recommended that schools remain open, even during outbreaks of flu - a shift from its recommendation at the beginning of the pandemic last spring, when schools were advised to shut down immediately when students became ill. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...money. The company needs about $14 billion in capital to finance its business for the next several years - and another $2.8 billion to buy Siemens' joint-venture stake. Spinetta's plan calls for the state to sell 15% of Areva to new investors. Leading potential buyers include Mitsubishi - a frequent Areva partner - and Abu Dhabi's flush sovereign wealth funds. (Read: "Abu Dhabi: An Oil Giant Dreams Green...
...Tunisia, where my paternal relatives are from, I accurately expected that rural, sub-Saharan Africa wouldn’t exactly be the mirror image of life in Cambridge, Mass. But what has struck me considerably about Uganda in the past several weeks has not been the random and frequent brownouts or the latrine we have to squat in every day. Instead, at the non-governmental organization where I’m working, I have been most struck—and irritated—by some native Ugandans’ acceptance of inefficiency for no reason other than...
...making a slow recovery. Although the war is over, many of the problems associated with it are not. Ex-combatants, a large number of whom were forced to fight against their will, have not been fully reintegrated into society or accepted by their families. The extreme poverty and frequent conflict that made Sierra Leone susceptible to fighting remain. Communities still remember individual wrongdoings, and true reconciliation - somewhere between forgiving and forgetting - has not yet been achieved. (See pictures of death and life in Sierra Leone...
...There is no separation of church and state in Israel, where religious facilities - including those for the Muslim and Christian communities - are funded by the government but controlled by the religious establishment. There is a wary standoff between the state judicial system and the religious courts, leading to increasingly frequent showdowns over cases involving divorce and religious conversion. (Read how opposition to gay rights unites Israel's contentious faiths...