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...sneezing and other excretions. Effective antivirals lessen the amount of virus a patient sheds (because the patient is not as severely ill) and shortens the length of time he or she sheds virus at all. Taking this into account, Neil Ferguson of Imperial College in London has used mathematical modeling to show that antivirals would help slow the spread of a bird flu virus originating in Asia. While the model should hold true for a swine flu arising in Central America, as well, no one knows for sure as the drugs have never been used to tackle an epidemic...
...similar model has already been implemented successfully in St. Petersburg, Fla. Decades ago, Nelson Poynter gave his two main media properties, the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly, to an eponymous foundation with the directions that the papers were to be run as public trusts. Today, the St. Petersburg Times is perhaps the best newspaper from any small or moderate-sized city. In fact, just last week the paper won Pulitzer Prizes for both national reporting and feature writing...
...Even National Public Radio, which began to accumulate an endowment following a $225 million gift in 2003, relies on the fund for just a small fraction of its total budget. The aim of converting The Globe to a non-profit is to avert catastrophe, not to create a new model for newspapers...
...That is how you build a community’s power.” A sense of continued presence in the communities was the theme of the night. In her opening remarks, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds praised PBHA for being a model for continued public service in the nation at large. Awards were also presented to City Councilor Sam Yoon and Assistant City Manager for Human Services Ellen Semonoff for their consistent dedication to service in the Boston and Cambridge areas. Former camper and current SUP Director Nehemie Bernard, who is also a sophomore at the University...
...helping the administration brainstorm more creative ways to tailor the budget such that layoffs would not be necessary. Their blog points to other academic institutions, such as Stanford and Washington University, where top administrators are taking pay cuts of up to 10%. “Harvard should be a model for the world,” Pearce says. “And part of that is having a community that values all of its members. Our campaign really comes from fact that we love the Harvard community, and it would be a tragedy for it to be broken...