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...Americans could die of H1N1 in the upcoming season; and a simultaneous report that the government was taking some unprecedented steps to get a vaccine ready in time. But the fatality numbers are more complicated - and less alarming - than they seem; and the vaccine report is less a reason for alarm than a sign of smart epidemiological planning...
...reason for the wait is biological. The first volunteers to test the new vaccine were inoculated in August, and because most people will not have any existing immunity to H1N1, it will require two shots, spaced three weeks apart, to educate the immune system to recognize H1N1, and another six to eight weeks after that to generate true immunity to the virus. That's when scientists will know if the vaccine provided enough protection to allow the bottled inoculations to be shipped. After decades of making flu vaccines, the scientists are sure they know what they're doing. Indeed...
...Kerry was disappointed, but he quickly buckled down. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, had never had much reason to work with Kerry before this year. So he was surprised when Kerry approached him in the Senate about a month ago. "He came over to me, and he said he'd like to see if we could find some middle ground on global warming," Graham recalls. With California Senator Barbara Boxer, Kerry has been gathering Senators from both sides of the aisle for weekly meetings on climate-change legislation. The bill was thought to be a nonstarter in the Senate...
...Which makes a certain sense. Kennedy lived his adult life in death's parlor, with no reason to imagine he would live long enough for his hair to go grey, much less white. He barely survived his own plane crash in 1964; he campaigned in 1980 in a bullet proof vest. He carried the guilt of a young life lost, after Mary Jo Kopechne died in the accident he walked away from. He was a close personal acquaintance of grief, and so was present during its visits to other people. Biden recalled Kennedy's ministry after his first wife...
...Another reason for the ambivalence is that the new law is predicted to have little effect on the Mexican street. Police officers would rarely arrest people caught with small amounts of drugs anyway, although they would often use it as an opportunity to extract handsome bribes...