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...asterisks help explain why, in October, the government will ask more of the public. The CDC, along with state and local health officials, will launch the most ambitious mass-vaccination campaign in U.S. history. This will be a new vaccine since the regular vaccine for seasonal flu will offer no protection against H1N1. But because it is being produced exactly like the seasonal-flu vaccine that manufacturers make every year, it is relatively predictable. It will have been studied in clinical trials, which are going on now, and so far, it appears that the risks of serious side effects...
...because they have to.” Fitzsimmons said that Harvard’s need-blind financial aid policy for all applicants has played a significant role in enticing international students. “There is a very small number of other universities in the US that offer similar kinds of financial aid, so those that have financial aid for international students are a very attractive option. It allows us to be much more competitive,” Fitzsimmons said. Having travelled to China and Vietnam to speak to prospective students last fall, Fitzsimmons affirmed Harvard’s desire...
...working with Germanic Languages and Literature Professor Eric Rentschler in the 1990s to help obtain several hundred 35-millimeter German feature films for Harvard’s collection from the Film and Television Board of Bavaria in cooperation with German directors and producers. Just approached Rentschler around 2005 to offer donating his film collection, Rentschler said. “This is going to be seen by film historians as an enormous help,” Rentschler said. “At a time when Harvard is building a Ph.D. program in film studies, this collection will be tremendously helpful...
Well, were you paid for it? Was I paid? No. I welcomed the opportunity to get to know their product on an up-close and personal basis. Unfortunately, everything I had to offer was everything they didn't care about. I had the wrong car, I had the wrong watch, I had the wrong shirt, I had the wrong shoes. In the process of doing that research I figured out how ill equipped I was to interact with that very narrow sliver of American society...
...contrast, the civilian government has been more open. "They have made the offer, and some of our law-enforcement agencies are receiving training from the Americans," Interior Minister Rehman Malik tells TIME. Still, Malik says, "we need all sorts of capacity-building equipment, the list is long." Some leading analysts argue that the U.S. has focused too narrowly on the army to the neglect of the police's counterterrorism abilities - which could prove crucial in thwarting bombings, like the one that struck a crowded marketplace in Kohat on Sept. 18, killing...