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...month ago, British Health Secretary Andy Burnham issued a statement urging British citizens not to panic despite a surge in the number of cases of H1N1 influenza in the country. Now it seems health officials have the opposite problem: they are urging parents not to hold "swine flu parties" that some people believe will build up children's immunity by infecting them with the virus...
Washington Post • plan of to hold "salons" at which access to government and media figures could be sold to lobbyists for big bucks is embarrassingly abandoned...
...Poignantly, the one thing that unites the poor and the middle class in their hopes for family life is the imperishable dream of being married forever, grabbing hold of the golden ring of lasting partnership. The low-income mothers studied by Kefalas and co-author Kathryn Edin spoke repeatedly of their wish to get married; they "cherish marriage and hold it to an impossibly high standard," the authors found, but too often forgo it as a result. Meanwhile, the middle class has spent the past 2½ decades - during which the divorce culture became a fact of life - turning weddings...
...marriage? Is it - given the game-changing realities of birth control, female equality and the fact that motherhood outside of marriage is no longer stigmatized - simply an institution that has the capacity to increase the pleasure of the adults who enter into it? If so, we might as well hold the wake now: there probably aren't many people whose idea of 24-hour-a-day good times consists of being yoked to the same romantic partner, through bouts of stomach flu and depression, financial setbacks and emotional upsets, until after many a long decade, one or the other eventually...
...done it few favors in the wake of last month's disputed Iranian elections. On Wednesday, Iran's military chief of staff, Major General Hassan Firouz-Abadi, accused the E.U. of "interference in the postelection riots." He said that, as a result, the E.U. had "lost its qualification" to hold talks on Iran's controversial nuclear program, and he demanded an apology for its "huge mistakes...