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...measure, however, were the new numbers reassuring-and that was the point. While the report's authors, which include some of the country's sharpest minds from science, medicine and engineering, stress that the forecast is not predictive of what could actually occur in coming months, it was intended to remind everyone how devastating a flu pandemic...
...upward of 50% will be affected. All of us have a responsibility to blunt the epidemic by decreasing the spread of virus. If people understand that they can mitigate the epidemic by washing their hands and staying home when they are sick, it means the peak of disease will occur later, when there is more vaccine available." That could also help to keep the impact of H1N1-on the health care system, on families and on the economy in the form of fewer sick days-to a minimum...
Seoul remains wary of the North's plea for direct negotiations with Washington, given Pyongyang's long history of trying to drive a wedge between South Korea and the U.S. But the official in Seoul stressed that should bilateral talks occur, Lee has confidence that the Obama Administration would be completely transparent in sharing information and in shaping any policy response in conjunction with its close ally in Seoul. South Korea, in other words, won't object strenuously to direct talks should they come...
Lamont Library: 1. The most social place to study, Lamont offers comfy chairs and textbooks 24/5 on reserve for all those readings you missed. Too bad no studying will ever occur here. 2. Home of Lamont Cafe, which is almost like a student center, but not really...
...comments. "The joke is that he has promised governorships to three times more such leaders than there are provinces. The reality is that Karzai's top running mates are the equivalent of warlords, and he [has] done everything possible to buy the election long before the vote will actually occur. As a result, the real question is how many Afghan voters will actually stay bought when they go to the polls." (Read a story about the Taliban threat to disrupt the Afghan election...