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...million to set her up. Three seasons, more than 8 million CDs, $225 million worth of movie tickets, two concert tours, a best-selling memoir and 15 million Hannah Montana books later, says Disney, she's worth billions of dollars to the company. Of course, the channel reduced its risk considerably by casting the girl it wanted to develop into a famous pop singer in - um - a show about a girl who's a famous pop singer. Jonas, starring three real-life musical brothers, is about brothers who are rock stars. On Lovato's show, Sonny with a Chance...
...ordered between 12,000 and 13,000 doses of H1N1 vaccine from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, but the first shipment will be earmarked for groups designated high-risk by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—including pregnant women, medical services personnel, and caretakers of young children...
...list of about 300 to 400 people at Harvard who qualify as high-risk and will receive the vaccine when it first arrives...
...stance on recreational drugs, the State of New York attempted to say no—when it affected its health-care workers. Until a State Supreme Court judge issued a temporary restraining order, it was state policy to require all health-care workers to be vaccinated or risk losing their jobs. Still, the state’s health commissioner believes in the vaccination policy and will appeal the ruling. This mandate was intended not merely for the safety of health workers; it was primarily to ensure the safety of patients. The rationale is the following: Health workers interact with people...
...Once the refined wheels of military justice begin to turn, there's still a risk they could grind to a halt. Many of Gitmo's detainees are charged with material support for terrorism or terrorist groups, one of the offenses Congress set aside for the commissions, as it did in 2006. But such offenses have not been recognized as war crimes by the Geneva Convention, nor have they been brought before military tribunals before. Administration legal officials have expressed concern that civilian appeals courts would reverse hard-won convictions on grounds that material support offenses should not have been tried...