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...swine-flu virus continued its gradual global march on Tuesday, prompting countries to strengthen efforts to stem its spread, while President Barack Obama asked Congress for $1.5 billion in supplementary spending to prepare for a possible swine-flu pandemic and installed the newly confirmed Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, to help lead the fight against the disease. In the U.S., the caseload rose to 67 across five states - 45 of them in New York City, where health officials are investigating two new possible outbreaks at city schools - with more virus samples awaiting laboratory confirmation. New Zealand...
...varying sizes) in the air. The particles are visible only in the haze and smog we see but hard to keep out of our bodies because of their minuteness. The study describes, in part, how cities and counties fare when measured against EPA ozone pollution standards imposed in March 2008 (spoiler alert: not well), details the ways in which cities have improved or worsened, and provides recommendations for the future. (Read a Q&A with EPA head Lisa Jackson...
...Radio, and he co-founded a high school recruiting website called GoBig Recruiting. If it’s not football, it’s a business career focused around football.Sadly absent from any NFL rosters is Clifton Dawson ’07, who was released by the Colts in March after being shuffled between Indianapolis and the Bengals.So as Pizzotti and Bryant embark on the road from the Ivy League to the NFL, they should know that the journey is no easy task. There is a long trail of Ivy grads who couldn’t make...
...week, SLAM, in collaboration with the Harvard College Democrats, released a Youtube.com video about the human cost of layoffs which already has over 2,000 views. Produced by Warren S. Loegering ’12, the video tells the story of Bedardo Sola, a worker who was laid off March 16th but rehired due to student advocacy. Sola refers to Harvard students as the workers’ “secret weapon.”“SECRET WEAPON” SLAM activists realize that the student voice is a powerful “secret weapon?...
Three previous trials have established this much: on March 12, 2006, a small group of junior soldiers slipped away unnoticed from a lightly defended traffic checkpoint just outside the insurgent-infested town of Yusufiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad. Nursing a hatred of Iraqis stemming from heavy losses their unit had suffered, and fueled by several bottles of Iraqi whisky, they embarked upon a premeditated crime of gruesome barbarity. Donning black long-underwear outfits as disguises, even though it was the middle of the day, they traveled a few hundred meters to an isolated farmhouse where they gang-raped Abeer...