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...care workers who suffer serious side effects from smallpox vaccines. The absence of such a program is a big reason why fewer than 13,000 of the Bush administration's target of 500,000 health care and emergency workers have received the shot so far. The bill would also kick-start Bush's bioshield initiative, designed to speed the availability of new vaccines for biological threats...
...what other careers she may have entertained? The Oscar-winning, Mandarin-speaking Harvard grad has already made it quite apparent that she can do whatever she sets her mind to. And if she had chosen to set her mind on something else, would she have found the time to kick-start her career in 1995 with a breakout performance in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite? Luckily, the young starlet-in-waiting decided against anthropology and astronomy, and instead became a star in her own right...
...managed to drum up $1 million in sponsorships in the Lions' first season. Still, the U.S.-educated Tu, former president of STAR TV in Taiwan, and his partner Daniel Chiang, chairman of China's largest Internet portal, Sina.com, say teams must be given more autonomy if China is to kick-start the high-voltage basketball culture promoted by NBA franchises. "The best policy would be to give the clubs the rights to earn money, then if they don't have the professional sense to earn a profit, they shouldn't even belong to the league," says Tu. "Sports should definitely...
...sort of one-on-one Prefect program? Aside from the attendant social fluidity, both parties would derive benefit—the first-years from the senior’s experience, and the senior from the first-year’s starry-eyed wonderment. And, if we seniors want to kick-start our own narrative engines, why not pair each of us up with an alums with similar professional interests? Certainly there are enough alums to go around. And they all inhabit magical little worlds of their own—ones that might even persuade Harry, Boo, Matilda and the Narnia...
...Bush administration will donate $200 million to a global fund to fight the AIDS pandemic in the developing world. The reason the latter is bad news is that $200 million is about 10 percent of the amount most experts had agreed would be needed from the U.S. to kick-start the fund. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan, ever the diplomat, praised the administration for its contribution, but noted that, "we need a response that matches the challenge...