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...benefit, however, is predicated on annual inoculation. Annual flu shots are necessary because the flu mutates much more quickly than other viruses like the measles or polio. Part of the reasons those diseases are now so rare or nearly extinct is that, in the U.S., infants are vaccinated against them while still in the hospital, keeping them inoculated for life...
...America whose values are not defined by the ignorance and sanctimonious arrogance of the Christian right. It is an America that has the courage to show the world that people of faith are compassionate, merciful and good stewards of the earth. We see in Barack Obama a rare combination of intelligence, integrity and humility - and hope he can get us out of the moral quagmire we've fallen into. Elizabeth Hooper, Atlanta...
Even so, a recession is under way. The goal now, said economist and Obama aide Austan Goolsbee, is to prevent a depression. Obama also sees in the current mess a rare confluence of both crisis and opportunity that gives him the chance to remake the U.S. economy. After months in which members of his own party wondered how Obama could keep all his promises in a single term, he is now setting the stage to attempt far more in his first year in office than seemed likely just a month ago. "We're coming in," noted Goolsbee, "with a bang...
...It’s 150 years of what has gone on in Concord, and it’s rare to have this kind of data,” he said...
...detainees, a judge ruled Nov. 20 that the Bush administration's case against five Algerians (first detained in Bosnia) was too weak to prevent their release. The hearing followed a June Supreme Court ruling giving the men the right to argue against their detention in court. In a rare move, Judge Richard Leon urged the government not to appeal the verdict, saying the men, who have been imprisoned for seven years, should be released "forthwith." (A sixth defendant was ruled an "enemy combatant" who should stay in government custody. He is appealing.) TIME spoke to one of the case...