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Swine Flu: New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report up to 5.7 million cases of swine flu in the nation this spring, with a significant number of them going undiagnosed...
...number of the programs operating under PBHA’s purview, including the Small Claims Advisory Service, Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment, and the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, will continue to serve the community during the school recess...
...workers are busy registering the fresh arrivals and distributing sanitation kits. But food aid has yet to arrive. Last week, forms ran out, forcing the NGO-run registration centers to close for three days. There are no plans for camps to be established, even with the fears that the number of refugees could double. Instead, they will have to squeeze into relatives' homes; those without family in the region are renting accommodations at steep prices...
Russia wishes it were smaller. No, it isn't about to shed any territory, but President Dmitry Medvedev has suggested that Russia reduce its number of time zones from 11 to four, arguing that the extreme time difference - in which western Russia wakes for breakfast just as eastern Russia climbs into bed - "divides" the country and "makes it harder to manage it effectively." Can Russia just change time zones like that? How are time zones determined anyway? (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...while the government has stepped up the number of arrests on smuggling charges and for watching the videos, it has relaxed sentences for offenders who only do the latter. Ten years ago, that particular crime carried a sentence of five years in a prison camp; today, enemy-propaganda watchers are usually handed a sentence of three months or less of unpaid labor, according to two refugees in Seoul. The shift may not have been an ideological one: Myung, who served in the North Korean police just last year, says that the regime made the decision because it couldn't afford...