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Sickness and death from vaccine-preventable diseases has fallen to an all-time low in the U.S., according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, there were no reported deaths in the U.S. from measles, diphtheria, mumps, polio, or rubella (German measles), according to research published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The number of deaths for tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), and Hib disease (a major cause of meningitis) had all fallen more than 99% since vaccines were introduced against them. Vaccines have cut the number of deaths from hepatitis...
...Dubai's Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Qatar's Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and Abu Dhabi's Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan are sons of gulf royalty. But these are not their fathers' investments. Gulf money 20 years ago was being sunk into safe-bet, low-yield U.S. Treasury bonds--or the arms bazaar. Some recent deals--Dubai's brief holdings in DaimlerChrysler and Madame Tussauds, for example--have been opportunistic. But Dubai's bid for NASDAQ is part of a vision for positioning the city-state as a world-class business center. "Dubai has managed...
...Mahlerian in form” make total sense, as Berg, Schoenberg, and Mahler are all three simply components of Ross’s master architectural scheme, to be manipulated at will.Not surprisingly, to the extent that there is a fundamental narrative, it is the story of high art, low art, and where they separated. The blessing and the curse of Ross’s writing style is that he loads his answer with as much nuance as the subject itself. He writes, “Music history is too often treated as...a flat image representing a landscape that...
This increase is only one of a litany of laudable accomplishments of the new appropriations agreement. The bill also raises the budget of the National Institute of Health (NIH) to $30 billion form its previous level of $28.9 billion, increases spending on TRIO and Gear Up programs for low-income students, and blocks proposed cuts in campus-based aid. Unfortunately, Bush has threatened to veto the proposed legislation, claiming it is fiscally irresponsible...
...been lackluster for years, as evidenced by the fact that the maximum Pell Grant was stagnant from 2002 until the beginning of 2007. This bill presents an opportunity to build on previous increases in order to create a more robust program that better reflects the costs faced by low-income students at state universities...