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...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 not get the vaccine. If you have a disease affecting your immune system, like cancer or HIV/AIDS, you should opt out as well. And because the CDC recommendation is so new - it was announced this spring - you might want...
Maybe mixed messages aren't just inevitable; they're valuable. On the one hand, for all the conservative outcry, there is no evidence that giving kids complete and accurate information about sex and contraception encourages promiscuity. On the other, a purity pledge basically says sex is serious. That it's not to be entered into recklessly. To deny kids information, whether about contraception or chastity, is irresponsible; to mock or dismiss as unrealistic the goal of personal responsibility in all its forms may suit the culture, but it gives kids too little power, too little control over their decisions...
...Earthworm Has Turned Inevitably, some people have serious misgivings about what Loyrette is up to. Just ask Marc Fumaroli, one of 40 members of the Académie Française, the cream of the French intelligentsia, who are known as "the immortals." He's chairman of the Society of Friends of the Louvre, a 111-year-old French association that helps finance some of the museum's acquisitions. Its popularity has been waning, but with 70,000 members, most of whom pay a $100 annual subscription, it still has some clout - even if it doesn't formally have...
...doing that means showing, in his words and interactions overseas, that he is no pushover. "We would like to demonstrate in this trip his comfort and his capacity to deal with the serious challenges that face this country - that he's comfortable and he's sure-footed, and he knows what he is doing," says one of Obama's foreign policy advisers...
...clearly is a serious political crisis," says Dave Sinardet, a political scientist at the University of Antwerp. He said Leterme's four months as Prime Minister failed to achieve anything of note, apart from balancing the budget. Meanwhile, the country's economy is slowing and inflation is at its highest in almost 24 years...