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Still, Pennington says there are lessons to be learned. He says the vaccine surplus in many cases can be ascribed in part to countries' own pre-existing pandemic-preparedness plans. Many such plans, which were put in place in the mid-2000s, were based on the worst-case-scenario assumption that the next pandemic virus would be some variation of the highly lethal H5N1 bird-flu virus, which has so far killed 263 people. The U.K.'s plan, for example, which was automatically enacted when the WHO declared the H1N1 pandemic, predicted between 50,000 and 750,000 deaths from...
...education starts in kindergarten with books like A Chair for My Mother (the moral: if you want to buy something, save money first) and quickly becomes hands-on. Each entering class at Ariel - a K-8 public school that has partnered with a local money-management firm since the mid-1990s - is entrusted with a $20,000 investment portfolio, and by seventh grade, kids are deciding what to buy and sell (profits help pay for college). Last year, for the first time, the eighth-grade class graduated with less than the original $20,000. Talk about a teachable moment: stocks...
...Crimson’s top line had plenty of looks at the net, including one from junior Katharine Chute mid-period that required a beauty of a glove save from Ramelot. And with 3:40 left in the game, the line’s chemistry finally translated into results...
Harvard met the Terriers this past fall when the Crimson hosted the Harvard Fall Classic in mid-September. BU played tough through that tournament, but the Crimson, powered by their freshmen talent, prevailed. This time the Terriers had an even more daunting task, as BU was short a couple of players due to injury and forfeited the No. 6 singles slot and the No. 3 doubles position. Despite the default wins, the freshmen and sophomores that compose the majority of Harvard’s roster showcased a great deal of skill and ability through Saturday’s contested matches...
...words will be little comfort to Chen Li. Like millions of other Chinese, the Beijing-based Web developer is struggling with one of the side effects of the country's stimulus efforts - a runaway property market. Fueled by cheap credit, property prices have grown steadily since mid-2009. A government survey of 70 medium- and large-size cities found that in December, average housing costs jumped 2.1% over the previous month - the fastest increase in 18 months. (See pictures of China's infrastructure boom...