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...curbside care is simple: you pull up, read about the risks and sign a consent form, then bare your bicep and get a shot--all without leaving the driver's seat. In October in Lynchburg, Va., the Central Virginia Health District's first drive-by clinic served 300 patients in 3 1/2 hours. That's less than 45 seconds per vaccination (and no time cooped up in a room with possible germ spreaders...
...Central Virginia's health director, says doctors' offices dole out the shots almost as quickly. The biggest risk, he adds, may be that some drivers get woozy after the shot. "If anybody was looking a little pale," he says, "we had a place for them to pull over." Reclining seat backs optional...
...After a thrilling home win over Cornell, who during the seniors’ time in Cambridge has evolved into a perennial league rival, the Crimson sat in the driver’s seat entering the final weekend of Ivy play in March: win out, and it would retain its sole grip on the Ancient Eight crown. But a loss in a lackluster effort at Yale the following weekend forced a three-game playoff atop the league standings, eventually sending the Big Red to the NCAA tournament and Harvard home...
...can’t help but think that the show might build ridiculous expectations for a system that is actually broken. Regardless, I’m going to miss Michael Crichton, his books, and “ER,” and I wonder who he got a seat next to in writer’s heaven. —Columnist Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...power the People?s Power Party, a reconstituted version of Thaksin's banned party. Thailand's current Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat is Thaksin's brother-in-law and is considered by government critics as little more than a puppet. Indeed, the opposition alliance that has occupied Thailand's seat of power, Government House, for more than two months, vows to continue its siege until a leader they consider independent of Thaksin is brought to power. While thousands of protesters occupy his office grounds, Somchai has been forced to work out of the VIP lounge of Bangkok's old airport...