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...rigorous vaccination efforts, even voluntary ones, can brush up against thorny privacy issues. At Maryland's Johns Hopkins Hospital, personnel who choose to get a flu shot are provided with a colored clip to attach to their hospital ID. The idea is to make easily identifiable those who are unvaccinated and therefore need to wear masks when caring for patients with respiratory illnesses. The hospital intended to have two colored clips this year: one for seasonal flu and one for H1N1. But administrators realized that since the H1N1 vaccine is prioritized for specific groups, such as pregnant women and people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Health-Care Workers Be Forced to Get Flu Shots? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...think in the second [set], Princeton turned it on a little,” Coach Weiss said. “The idea is to earn points and not make so many unforced errors...

Author: By Erika T. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Splits Contests Against Killer P’s | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...discovery that the computations occurred sequentially, all within about half a second of each other, refuted the idea that Broca’s region is only involved in language production...

Author: By CAROLINE A. SOLOMON, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Broca’s Area May Have New Function | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

With the Head of the Charles behind them, the Harvard heavyweights and lightweights have an idea of where they stack up against top-notch competition and can draw on this experience as they continue training and competing with the spring season in sight...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Boats Make Progress in Adverse Conditions | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...solitary study but also spiritual experience in a group setting. Trying to understand a religion without experiencing its mode of worship is like reading about the rules of baseball in a book without ever attending a game and being a spectator yourself—you might get a basic idea of how the players move around the field, but you probably won’t understand why watching the game has so much appeal...

Author: By Ellen C. Bryson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Good Faith | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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