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...This would be comparable to what we would see in a moderate flu season in January or February," says Mark Springer, the Spokane Regional Health District's epidemiologist. "This is just a snapshot in time. We would anticipate increases...
...year. The 2009 H1N1 vaccine will be free, with public distribution in most areas. Among those the government has prioritized for the voluntary vaccine: all school-age children, pregnant women, caretakers of young babies and people with chronic health conditions that could weaken their immune systems. In Spokane, Springer is carefully tracking the numbers to see how the illness behaves before local school children have a chance to be vaccinated and will continue to do so for a full two weeks afterward while immunized kids build up resistance to the virus. That leaves as much as a month...
...direct, performative, and cruel than ever. Take the recent outburst from Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who rudely bellowed “You lie!” at the president during his speech to Congress on health care. This behavior might be acceptable during an episode of Jerry Springer, but it shouldn’t fly on Capitol Hill, especially toward the commander-in-chief. Although the congressman later apologized, there are indications that Wilson may have planned his statement; CNN reports that he hinted at it in advance via a Labor Day Twitter feed...
...East of Checkpoint Charlie, the Wall trail crosses Axel-Springer-Strasse to the north of its intersection with Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse. Springer, a West German press baron, owned newspapers that denounced the Federal Republic's nascent student-protest movement and Dutschke, its charismatic leader. When Dutschke was badly injured in an assassination attempt in 1968, the riots that followed exposed the rage young West Germans felt towards their elders. Two years later, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof founded the Red Army Faction, a left-wing terrorist group. In a 1971 survey, a quarter of West Germans under 30 professed...
...male contestants, the biggest stumbling block is what producers call the entourage factor: What will the guy's friends say? But DeLay had already outed himself when, in 2006, he e-mailed his supporters, urging them to vote for country star Sara Evans' "good American values" against Jerry Springer and his "smut" (to no avail, since Evans left the show voluntarily around the same time she announced her divorce). (See the top 10 skanky reality TV shows...