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...vaccine recommendations track with the Science study more than they seem to, since the government does recognize that the elderly are less vulnerable to H1N1/09 than they are to regular flu and that super spreader school children are more vulnerable. Vaccinating the kids, as well as people in their parents' age group, could go a long way toward protecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Get Swine Flu Shots First? | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...Obama's Red Dawn Re Michael Kinsley's essay, "That Wealth Spreader," it is clear that John McCain's campaign has fallen back on an old, tired McCarthyist anthem and it is ugly [Nov. 10]. With much of the world and many staunch conservatives all endorsing Obama, how do they call him a socialist with a straight face? It shows how little faith they have in the strength of their own ideals and the credibility of their own party after eight years of Bush. This smacks of desperation and deceit. Fred Grygiel, Sea Girt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...Edsel fiasco has been autopsied many times--it is the stuff of books and business-school case studies--and yet I can't help reaching for the rib spreader one more time. Here was an early and definitive illustration of message revenge, the kind of fierce consumer blowback that can occur in markets when a product or service (or military occupation) fails to live up to its hype. Consumers, it turns out, regard their passive absorption of mass advertising as an investment of psychic space; to the extent that they allow themselves to become aroused with anticipation, they consider their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edsel Agonistes | 9/7/2007 | See Source »

...willing to sit for hours on end in the dining hall, listening to yet another sob story about “the Perfect Man”? You don’t really believe they care about your problem. And you certainly don’t believe that the spreader is going to take the advice...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, DIAGNOSIS | Title: Something to Talk About | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...Seattle and hamlets as small as Sammamish, Wash., he has trimmed lanes and filled the space with bike routes or a grassy buffer between the asphalt and the sidewalk to ease walkers' stress. Of course, motorists tend to react to Burden as they might to a jackknifed manure spreader directly in their path. "They say ,'We already have a traffic problem,'" says Burden, "'and now you want to take lanes away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Community Activism: He Takes Back The Streets For Walking | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

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