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...CHRIS HONDROS / GETTY POLIO: After a year-long hiatus, children in Nigeria are once again getting oral vaccines...
...Summer, who are basically the only consistently interesting couple on the show. Now, a confession: After the vomit-inducing “The next song that comes on the radio will be our song” line in the last episode before the show took that strange month-long hiatus, I was about ready to give up. I thought that it had officially run out of juice, attempting to grasp hold of a teenage reality with which it had never been really acquainted. Ultimately, however, those crazies over at “The OC” are making strides...
...Ruggiero’s Olympic experiences, which forced her to take a two-year training hiatus in the middle of her Harvard playing days, give her a special kind of insight into the struggles awaiting this year's Crimson edition...
...fashions come back every twenty years, surely so could playthings. But the ’80s toy appeal seems to extend beyond this—my Lincoln Logs may have been born of an earlier time but they had evolved all along, not suddenly reappearing after a 20 year hiatus. Maybe we were all being duped by the marketing geniuses who realized that our consumer generation would more easily take the bait on buying back our youth. But if this was the case, they probably should have thought twice before they bastardized the source of all our happiness.Forget models...
...London Safe Spaceflight "Why nasa can't get it right" reported on the safety concerns plaguing the space-shuttle program [Aug. 8]. Over the years I have found it difficult to support nasa, a government operation that I believe is basically a welfare program for aeronautical engineers. After a hiatus of 21⁄2 years, nasa engineers launched the Discovery shuttle and encountered the same problem - falling insulation foam from the external fuel tank during lift-off - that doomed the previous shuttle, the Columbia, in 2003! nasa's engineers, managers and technicians should refund to the government the full amount...