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...guidelines Friday, Aug. 7, for grades kindergarten through 12, preventing H1N1 infections should begin with less drastic measures: frequent hand-washing and coughing into sleeves (not hands), and keeping all children with flu symptoms at home. The CDC recommended that schools remain open, even during outbreaks of flu - a shift from its recommendation at the beginning of the pandemic last spring, when schools were advised to shut down immediately when students became ill. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...kind of direct price negotiations with Medicare that Emanuel once championed. The White House also agreed, sources say, not to get behind a provision in the House bill that would eliminate a good deal the industry got from another provision in the Medicare prescription-drug program. The law shifted 6 million eligible beneficiaries from Medicaid - which pays lower prices for drugs - to the Medicare drug plan. In just the first two years of the program, that shift of beneficiaries from one program to the other produced an estimated $3.7 billion windfall for the industry, according to a report last year...
...most recent shift occurred in 1990, when Zaner-Bloser eliminated all superfluous adornments from the so-called Zanerian alphabet. "They were nice and pretty and cosmetic," says Kathleen Wright, the company's national product manager, "but that isn't the purpose of handwriting anymore. The purpose is to get a thought across as quickly as possible." One of the most radical overhauls was to Q, after the U.S. Postal Service complained that people's sloppy handwriting frequently caused its employees to misread the capital letter as the number...
...behind in this new scientific race toward a clean-energy economy. "If we are serious about delivering the real technological change needed to really reduce emissions, we need to scale up research in a massive way," says Mark Muro, a fellow at the Brookings Institution. "We need a paradigm shift, and we're falling behind." (Watch an interview with Energy Secretary Steven...
...boon to police work, having an impact that is as significant as that of the police radio in the 1950s. "They truly are a force multiplier," says Sergeant Dan Gomez, the officer in charge of the Los Angeles Police Department's Tactical Technology Unit. In a typical 10-hour shift, Gomez says, a police officer traditionally could run perhaps 100 license plates through the system - calling the information in or typing into a computer, then waiting for a response. In comparison, says Gomez, the APLR system can process from 2,000 to 2,500 license plate "hits" per patrol...