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...biggest question will be what to do about schools. Because the virus has struck the young at such unusually high levels - some 60% of the world's confirmed cases have occurred in people age 18 or younger - schools have become a major locus of infection. Outbreaks incubate among children in schools, then spread to the community when those kids go home. A study in the journal Lancet found that closing schools as a preventive measure in the early stages of a pandemic could sharply cut the number of cases initially, which would reduce the later surges of infections that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think H1N1 Is Bad Now? Wait Till Flu Season | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

...question was, How? Simply knowing that the pose works is not the same as knowing why it works - at least, not in the detail a physicist would like. Recently a group of researchers from the Royal Veterinary College in London decided to find out, using tools Edwardian sportsmen couldn't have imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets of Jockeying: Why Horses Go Fast | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

Barely speaking basic Cantonese or reading traditional Chinese characters lends imagined elements to everyday interactions. Is the bored-looking girl behind the counter at 7-11 laughing at my question, or the joke her co-worker just told? Does the hostess detect the annoyance slipping into my voice when I ask her a third time for the address of the restaurant? What are the ads with women in bikinis selling–skin cream or cosmetic surgery...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover | Title: True Fiction | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...your opinion, what is missing from the House and Senate HELP bills? I'm not going to answer your question. If you do have the public option, the rest will sort itself out. So I resolved not to criticize the House or the Senate bills over other matters like taxation and things like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Howard Dean on the Politics of Health-Care Reform | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...governors' differences, says Rendell, "we would all like to see some federal policy where everyone in the country has access to health care." It's a noble goal. The real question, however, is who should have to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicaid and the States: Health-Care Reform's Next Hurdle | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

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