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...Iraq in a single month. Last Friday, the White House invited vaccine makers to discuss increased production of flu vaccines, such as Tamiflu—a medicine whose “effectiveness in humans is unknown.” Worse, Secretary of Health and Human Services Micheal O. Leavitt has stated that “no one in the world is ready,” making these steps seem pathetically small, if nothing more than empty political gestures...
...democracy. And while the Bush team took strong criticism for not being adequately prepared for a hurricane and flooding in New Orleans that numerous government reports had predicted, they're actively preparing for another possible disaster: a bird flu that is feared as a foreshadowing of a pandemic. Michael Leavitt, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is traveling in East Asia this week to coordinate international response to a possible spread of the flu, which has already killed about 60 people and millions of birds in that region...
...Vietnam report proves true, the implications will be particularly worrisome for public health programs to combat bird flu: Many governments have made stockpiling Tamiflu the centerpiece of their planning for a possible pandemic. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt wants to create a big enough stockpile to treat 20 million Americans, and about $3 billion of the $4 billion the U.S. Senate last week proposed allocating to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prepare for bird flu is to be used to buy Tamiflu. Never mind the fact that Tamiflu is produced in only one facility...
Cigar Masters is by far the most luxurious of Boston’s cigar bars. It has the finest cushy leather couches, vintage liquors, and, of course, cigars to be had this far north of Cuba. Highly recommended by Hans Rickneit of Leavitt and Pierce, as well as Cigar Afficionato, this is the best smoke in town for a young beginning smoker. Although this establishment does feature a physical bar, the real scene can be found in the back lounge. The lights are warm and low, and the dark wood paneling evokes an Old World ambiance. Choose from a wide...
Management gurus have forecast the end of organizational hierarchies for decades. In an era of cascading technology and shifting social attitudes, they say, firms will turn into "communities," "horizontal structures" and other egalitarian forms. Nice buzzwords, but not reality, says Stanford Business School professor Harold J. Leavitt in Top Down: Why Hierarchies Are Here to Stay and How to Manage Them More Effectively. Sure, Leavitt writes, hierarchies breed "infantilizing dependency that generates distrust, conflict, toadying, territoriality, backstabbing, distorted communication and most of the other ailments that plague every large organization." But they persist because compared with the alternatives, they...