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...Still, some undergraduates have managed to find a silver lining. On the website CollegeCandy.com, a student columnist from the University of Colorado at Boulder noted Monday that nerves about the outbreak may get students off the hook for skipping class. "While the rest of the world is freaking out, I couldn't be happier," she wrote. "The swine flu is the perfect excuse for just about anything this week and I plan to milk it for all it's worth...
Harvard Square’s recession-pinched businesses are now targeting students through a new e-mail list launched by student-run business Unofficial Tours. The e-mail list, which went live on Monday at www.harvardbargainblast.com, is a biweekly newsletter touting exclusive offers for Harvard students from businesses like the bar Tommy Doyle’s and the local hamburger chain b.good. As extra incentive to sign up, the first 100 people to subscribe will receive automatic gift certificates to b.good, burrito chain Qdoba, or the restaurant Grendel’s Den. All who sign up are entered...
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...calculate exactly how many of these tactics have helped stop the virus from spreading. In the first four days following April 24 when the government started taking action, the number of infected and dead rose steadily - from 58 reported fatalities on Friday to 149 dead by the tally on Monday. The total number of people who have been hospitalized for the infection shot up to more than 2,000, although two-thirds of these had checked out after successfully responding to anti-viral drugs. (Read a story about how the U.S. is preparing a swine flu vaccine...
...suffered from a familiar form of the influenza virus. He also said the government had no model of the H1N1 virus - which has features of avian, pig and human viruses - to base their studies on. "We never had this kind of epidemic in the world," he said on Monday. "This is the first time we have this kind of virus." As if to underline the point, the conference and Mexico City were rocked by tremors from a 6.0 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in the state of Guerrero...