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...Small businesses and organizations with general emergency plans already in place are one step ahead of the game. "Adding an H1N1 component to our overall plan increased employee awareness of the issue," says Pat Meller, CFO of the nonprofit Philadelphia Foundation. She plans to use the organization's intranet to link to local websites that provide information about vaccination and other preventive measures. One challenge, she says, is getting her mostly 20- and 30-something workforce to take the potential epidemic seriously. "Young people tend to think it won't happen to them, so we're giving everyone...
Scientists at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia report in two studies that parents can significantly reduce the accident rate among teens simply by talking with them about driving and enforcing rules for safety - much the way, as has been shown, parents can reduce the risk of substance abuse through conversations about alcohol and drugs. In fact, driving should be considered as dangerous as alcohol and drugs, the scientists say. In 2005, the latest year for which the government has statistics on teen driving, adolescent deaths made up 12% of all deaths from car accidents, and 400,000 teens required...
...make it to the Super Bowl this year. When he’s not working as a parking attendant, he sits outside the football stadium, watching games on a small TV rather than sitting in the bleachers. His ongoing call-in war with mysterious Eagles fan “Philadelphia Phil” (Michael Rapaport) probably gives him the greatest sense of purpose his humble life has ever known. Oswalt—whose previous credits include voicing Remy the Rat in “Ratatouille”—gives an evocative and authentic performance. His naturally chubby physique...
...health-care debates took over. This is not to suggest that people have completely forgotten Waxman-Markey. Power companies and other opponents of the bill have quietly continued to lobby for lower restrictions and decreased stringency in the proposed cap-and-trade system. An op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer over Labor Day lambasted the bill for the supposed job losses it would cause in Pennsylvania. The day after, the editor of Fabricating and Metalworking criticized congress for Waxman-Markey’s hidden taxes. In the face of this opposition—and opponents’ misconceptions?...
...well as inside the shop using photos from the book. Cambridge-centered displays are typically geared toward tourists, said Heather L. Gain, Harvard Book Store’s marketing manager. But Gain said she believes the display will attract Cambridge residents as well. Lotman, who was raised outside Philadelphia, fell in love with Boston when he visited as a 13 year old, he said. He moved to Cambridge in the early 1990s. “I felt like a relative newcomer [when I started the project], but people were impressed that I knew what I was talking about...