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Massachusetts governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 announced last night that his proposed 2008 fiscal budget will provide the option of free human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations for girls aged 9 to 18, as part of a $72 million increase in state public health funding. The vaccine, known as Gardasil, helps to prevent the spread of the HPV virus, which infects about 6.2 million people in the U.S. each year. The virus is transmitted through genital contact and can lead to cervical cancer and genital warts, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Although the proposed vaccination...
...think Wayne Palmer would be a hard thrower because he does not seem to be very creative in his policy decisions,” Haviland wrote, a tad derisively, in an e-mail. “Especially in early seasons it seems like he always sees only one option to solve a problem...
...make life easier for its transgender students. Amending its non-discrimination policy to protect gender identity last year was a milestone, and the Committee on House Life’s recent decision to make gender-neutral housing easier to obtain for transgender students—by including a transgender option in addition to the male and female categories on housing forms—is another step in the right direction. Many of these students will be far more comfortable in gender-neutral housing than in gender-segregated rooms. But such a policy fails to recognize that transgender students might feel...
...rare night of more than six hours of good sleep leaves us with a nagging sensation that we could have better spent our time. When weighing the marginal utility of an hour of sleep against powering through the rest of that Ec 10 problem set, you know which option always wins. Even if all those graphs and data have evaporated from our sleep-starved brains the next week, at least we got a check plus...
...Security Council action on Iran’s nuclear program since Russia is building Iran’s nuclear power plant and China has signed a $70 billion oil deal with the Iranian theocracy? With no support from China and Russia, and with America having no serious military option, it is unclear how much Europe will be willing to compromise its own energy-supply relationship with Iran to prevent it from going nuclear. We can wonder whether any major country, except for maybe Britain and Japan, will back America on any issue where Russia and China are opposed...