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...worldwide—a vaccine that can help to prevent the majority of cervical cancer is a remarkable achievement. But while there has been an admirable effort on the part of the medical and public health communities to ensure girls are vaccinated, their male counterparts have been overlooked. The main argument for vaccinating both genders is simple numbers. Vaccines can only be completely effective if everyone is vaccinated, thereby eliminating the possibility of anyone catching or spreading the disease. The same logic should apply to the HPV vaccine. As the HPV vaccine is relatively new?...

Author: By Claire G. Bulger | Title: Dying for Equality | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...little after 10 a.m. on Friday, and the skies are still blue and the sun is shining. I'm sitting at the kitchen bar in my parents' condo on Main Street, looking out at the city. The palm trees and crepe myrtles are still showing no wind, and there's hardly any traffic. Everyone was told to stay home. The grocery stores and some restaurants are still open, at least until 3 p.m. But the banks closed at 10 a.m., which reminds me: I forgot to get money. Here's hoping I can find an ATM that still has cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston Waits for Hurricane Ike | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

...pillar of British political science that governments lose elections; oppositions don't win them. Cameron wants to topple it. "When a government is in trouble, an opposition party's main task is not to be unelectable. What David Cameron has achieved - and it's a massive achievement - is to make the Tories electable," says Peter Kellner, president of polling organization YouGov. "One of the things Cameron has understood better than his predecessors is that when people form judgments about politicians and parties, it's on the whole not a judgment about their policies; it's a judgment about what sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Cameron: UK's Next Leader? | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

Just as Obama's critics question the substance behind the change message, Cameron has come under pressure to provide a clearer picture of what that change might entail. "The public wants a song to sing," says Bogdanor. "They want to know what sort of theme would be the main theme of the Conservative government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Cameron: UK's Next Leader? | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...past few days, groups of opposition loyalists have taken over several state institutions (airports, state television studios, educational facilities) in the opposition controlled departments of Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni and Pando. Yesterday, just hours before the Morales' declarations against Goldberg, a bomb exploded on one of Bolivia's main natural gas pipelines, cutting into its exports to Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia to Expel US Ambassador | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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