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...Today, Americans are being told to brace themselves for explosions of flu, shuttered schools, mass vaccinations and tens of thousands of deaths - or perhaps not. Are the media to blame for the confusion? Absolutely. But no more than usual. What about the government? So far, officials have done a relatively decent job of explaining what they know and what they don't and planning for the worst. "It's going to be a unique flu season. The only thing certain is uncertainty," says Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "Even with the best...
...asterisks help explain why, in October, the government will ask more of the public. The CDC, along with state and local health officials, will launch the most ambitious mass-vaccination campaign in U.S. history. This will be a new vaccine since the regular vaccine for seasonal flu will offer no protection against H1N1. But because it is being produced exactly like the seasonal-flu vaccine that manufacturers make every year, it is relatively predictable. It will have been studied in clinical trials, which are going on now, and so far, it appears that the risks of serious side effects...
...book, Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter ... but Really Do (W.W. Norton), author Melinda Blau and Purdue psychology professor Karen Fingerman explore the meaning of these often overlooked ties. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Blau at her home in Northampton, Mass. (See TIME's list of the top 10 doctored photos...
...service comes courtesy of the Mass. Ave. retailer’s new printing machine, which will make it the first bookseller in the nation with the ability to print 3.6 million titles on demand...
Ecuador's Correa, who won a new four-year term this year after scoring a revamped constitution that permits presidential re-election, introduced an Orwellian-sounding bill last week that would make his government the regulator of all media content. That includes the opinions of "all who practice mass communications," said the measure's congressional sponsor, Rolando Panchana. On Sept. 18, Correa moved to shut down the TV network Teleamazonas, which he insists is conspiring to overthrow him, and which he charges broadcast a recording of him without his permission...