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...most cases, the shingles rash and blisters go away in a few weeks or months, but in some cases the pain can last for years. Antiviral medications can help, and in 2006 the Food and Drug Administration approved a shingles vaccine, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends for all adults 60 and older. The vaccine isn't perfect, but it seems to decrease the target group's risk approximately 50%. Still, it may not be for you. If you have ever had a serious allergic reaction to gelatin or the antibiotic neomycin, you should...
...acute in Vietnam, where prices for virtually everything, from food to fuel to housing, have been spiking. Much of Vietnam's recent growth has been driven by its expanding manufacturing sector, but now assembly line workers' salaries are being outpaced by basic living costs. The result has been a rash of strikes-unusual in communist Vietnam-that are hurting the country's image as a haven for multinational companies looking for alternatives to China for manufacturing sites. Over the last six months, there have been more than 300 strikes throughout the country. Most last only a few days, with management...
...When we arrived at the house in Maine, my roommate noticed that my cheeks looked unusually blotchy. They began to itch, and I ran to a mirror to discover that the hives had spread to my horrified face. I wanted to cry, but the rash didn’t actually hurt that much. It was the embarrassment, even shame, I felt at being so visibly and conspicuously out of control that upset me. My face glowed angrily with a rash that I couldn’t make go away, and even though I was surrounded by my closest friends...
...When I awoke from my nap I decided to cede defeat to my rash. Somehow, this conscious surrender to a force outside of my control helped me to enjoy the weekend more—a trip that could have been spoiled by the specter of commencement. I decided that graduation, like embarrassing skin diseases, is just something you have to let happen to you. Unlike hives, you might even enjoy...
...realize I am at risk of carrying this analogy too far. Graduating is not exactly like an untreatable rash that sometimes spreads to the face. But it has felt like a process utterly outside of my control, and I have approached it with the wariness of a hypochondriac. The last four years of college have fed my desire to be in charge of my life, and perhaps it is a good thing now to be prodded in the other direction a little, to be forced to realize how much of the world happens to us, instead of the other...