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...Richard Besser, acting director of the agency, said health officials are closely tracking the spread of the swine flu, after additional cases of flu and some deaths were reported in Mexico. Preliminary testing of flu viruses in patients in Mexico and the U.S. show that the strains are similar. Of the 14 samples of suspected swine flu from Mexico that the CDC has tested so far, half are positive for swine flu, a form of influenza that normally infects pigs and can be transmitted to people. (Read about the history of the flu vaccine...
...Siemens Competition, go watch The Space Between (Loeb Mainstage, 8 p.m., $8), a play about Caltech professor Richard Feynman. It’s also a chance to hobnob with some MIT kids, who get in free tonight...
...appearance of words that not even Microsoft Word’s spellcheck could comprehend, such as fomites, skookum, and sialogogue. By this point, the number of contestants was reduced to four: Mass. Hall’s Athena L. Lao, Greenough’s Steven N. Maheshwary, Richard C. Alt of Matthews, and Pennypacker’s Ryan D. Smith. All four contestants spelled their words incorrectly in the initial segment of the final round. Lao then spelled two words in a row correctly, ending the first annual Freshman Spelling Bee with a flawless spelling of “Planilla...
...don’t see any of them being that interested in [a retirement incentive package],” classics professor Richard F. Thomas said of his colleagues in the department. “They all enjoy teaching and research. That’s basically what the job is about, so if you can get paid for that, why retire...
...battle will play out on Capitol Hill is still uncertain. The ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations committee, Indiana's Richard Lugar, is as traditional a conservative as they come, and though he hasn't decided, says an aide, "He always has an inclination in favor of an Administration's pick." Younger members of the committee are on the fence. Bob Corker of Tennessee has been sober in the face of outrage over the International Monetary Fund's use of currency reserves to stabilize the global financial system, a favorite Beck bugaboo. Johnny Isakson of Georgia has an unperturbably conservative...