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...Other campuses are taking precautionary measures closer to home. LeMoyne College, in Syracuse, N.Y., has stocked up on surgical masks and fever-fighting Tylenol. Harvard officials are meeting daily to monitor the situation and speaking directly with state and local public-health authorities for advice. San Diego City College is offering on its website a printable template for COVER YOUR COUGH signs. "We're being duly cautious," says Caroline Oyama, director of communications at the New School in New York City, which sent a memo to its 6,000 undergraduates this week urging them to wash their hands often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spring-Break Legacy: Swine Flu Hits Colleges | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...Local media reported earlier this month that The New York Times Company has threatened to close The Boston Globe, its erstwhile New England jewel whose once-bumper profits have morphed into massive losses. It’s easy to see why Times executives are fed up—losses at The Globe this year are projected at $85 million, a heavy burden that virtually no media company can bear in today’s economic environment...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani | Title: Breaking the News | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...considered staples come from this period, when Israel could not fund its own factories and needed monetary support from overseas businessmen. “It was a recession state, a highly regulated production economy,” he said adding that Israel was largely unable to import goods so local products were primarily utilized in food production. Couscous, another dish served at the dinner, and pita bread, a popular item in Israel, are both made of wheat, a crop that is abundant in the region. “You were told what to grow,” Ben-Yehoyada said...

Author: By Laura M. Fontanills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Eat, Discuss Jewish History | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...first elected in 2006 after promoting a new constitution to lead Ecuador out of the "long night of neoliberalism." Close to two-thirds of voters approved that new charter last September, which in turn prompted the weekend's vote to give all elected officials, from the President down to local administrations, a fresh start under new rules that strengthen executive power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ecuador, a Win for the Left May Be Good for Business | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...woman from the poor southern Mexican state of Oaxaca who died on April 13, Health Secretary Jose Crdova conceded that Edgar Hernandez, a four-year-old boy, who survived a bout of flu in February and March, had actually had the virus, as tests have now shown. Local authorities had raised alarm bells about a potent outbreak of flu in the boy's village, La Gloria, but the federal government had not reported the development to the World Health Organization. Officials considered the child's illness "normal," having occurred during the flu season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shutting Down Mexico City: Health Measure or Economic Disaster? | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

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