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...with some schools opening this month, a few decisions must be made. If the virus does not mutate into something more deadly, federal officials will urge local schools to stay open unless so many children or staffers are sick that teaching becomes difficult. This is a change from the spring, when some school districts simply shut down for a week or more as students began getting symptoms. U.S. officials now believe wholesale shutdowns are unnecessary, given the fact that the bug is already so widespread, and potentially too disruptive. When schools close, many parents have to stay home from work...
...While H1N1 proved to be a manageable bug during the spring, U.S. officials are taking no chances as autumn, the traditional flu season, approaches. One pessimistic model from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts that 40% of the nation could be struck - roughly 140 million people - with perhaps a six-figure death toll if a vaccination campaign is not successfully implemented. "To a lot of people, the flu went away," worries Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, who received her first Situation Room flu briefing minutes after taking her oath in April. "Nothing could...
...Ministry think tank. Ratchet up the nuclear tensions, declare diplomacy dead, and then hope to win even bigger concessions as talks reconvene later. But since taking office, Obama has proved no slouch at playing the game from the other side. In the wake of the nuclear test this past spring, the President dropped the rhetoric of engagement, went to the U.N. for new economic sanctions against Pyongyang and - perhaps most important - had his Treasury Department start to put into effect unilateral financial sanctions against North Korean companies and individuals. It was precisely those sorts of sanctions - and their effectiveness - that...
...questions about the former President's visit to Pyongyang - and about where relations with Kim's North Korea go from here - begin. As expected once he arrived, Clinton departed North Korea Wednesday morning with the two American TV journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, that he had come to spring from detention there. A senior Administration official revealed on Aug. 4 that the North Koreans had, in effect, directly requested that the former President visit Pyongyang. If Clinton did visit, the North Koreans told their two prisoners, they would be granted "amnesty" and freed. (See pictures of North Korea...
After the court issued its decision, Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer said he would immediately begin drafting an interim policy to specify in what instances prosecutions should or should not be brought. He plans to complete those guidelines by September, and to issue a final version by the spring...