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...tell Americans to wash their hands more - but there is evidence that such elementary actions can be remarkably effective in slowing the spread of infectious disease. (Studies have shown that towns that instituted similar measures during the 1918 flu had death rates that were considerably lower than the norm.) "I think [the government] has been getting an A-plus for how they've communicated the threat here," says Jeffrey Levi, executive director of the Trust for America's Health. (See "From A-Z: The Year in Medicine...
...value won't grow. Berman notes that a time-share unit he purchased in Colorado in 1997 for less than $40,000 is now worth more than $125,000 in the resale market. He emphasizes that an appreciation of three times the purchase price is the exception, not the norm. Still, it must make his ski vacations even more enjoyable...
...Norm, I like you. You lost. O.K.?' JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC host, on Norm Coleman's plan to appeal a three-judge panel's ruling that opponent Al Franken won 312 more votes in the 2008 Senate race in Minnesota...
...exploring with different body types and how they moved together, and how they moved in really unique ways, and each person’s unique virtuosity,” Latsky says. More than anything else, she and her ensemble seek to celebrate beauty in dancers that differ from the norm. The show’s producer, Jeremy Alliger, commented that this “unique virtuosity” of disability let the choreographer explore original forms of expression. “Imagine a master Renaissance painter, for instance, who discovers a new color on his palette that never before existed...
...offensive for a variety of causes. On the other are Koh's supporters, who want to retrench around sober messages of lower taxes, smaller government and American supremacy, and wait for public opinion to swing back in their favor. "Koh is just a surrogate" for that fight, says Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute...