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...Health and Human Services, is the nation's emergency medicine chest, containing critical drugs and medical equipment to be used in a public-health emergency.) Although the stockpiled antiviral drugs can treat existing cases of flu, a vaccine is the only way to protect people who are uninfected and halt further spread of the virus...
Davis quickly proved himself to be a centrist Democrat - voting, for instance, for a 2006 bill to build a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border, a measure that divided Democrats. The previous year, he followed his party in supporting a bill to halt restrictions on federal spending on embryonic stem cell research. He also showed an independent streak: Even as much of Alabama's Democratic establishment, including its black caucus, backed then-Sen. Hillary Clinton in the state's Democratic presidential primary, Davis endorsed Obama. (Obama won.) In the days after Obama's victory last November, there was talk that...
...more than 100 people in Mexico and infected several in the U.S., Canada and Spain, with suspected cases in Israel and New Zealand. Surgical masks, quarantines and empty streets are all too familiar for the city's 7 million residents, who saw their normally bustling lives screech to a halt six years ago, when SARS killed nearly 300 people. (See pictures of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico...
...halt of the party fund was something that people said really affected the social life at Harvard,” Holoshitz said. With the new grant, the UC will retroactively fund food and alcohol at a 70 to 30 percent ratio. “This is not the party fund, but we’re looking for creative ways to address the concern about social life,” Holoshitz said...
...Harman repudiated that report, saying she was unaware of any investigation into her AIPAC ties, and denounced the claims as "irresponsible, laughable and scurrilous." The investigation purportedly fizzled at the time due to "lack of evidence." But the CQ report suggests that then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales interceded to halt the probe to preserve Harman's value as a cross-aisle defender of the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Harman has called on the Obama Administration to release any transcripts or investigative material related to the incident, which she says will exonerate...