Word: standings
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...always been against Harvard policy to stand on fire escapes, but perhaps it’s time to amend the rule so that it’s illegal to stand underneath them, as well...
...Hernandez's story, and hundreds of others like her family's, indicate that the first-response apparatus of Mexico's public health system, if not the entire system, could stand a significant upgrade. Dr. Miguel Angel Lezana, director of the National Epidemiological Center, tried a bit of buck-passing this week, suggesting the response by the U.N.'s World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, "should have been more immediate" after Mexico informed WHO officials on April 16 of a possibly uncommon flu virus, one whose symptoms also include splitting headaches as well as the pneumonia-related problems. What Lezana seems...
...that my anger could be funneled into a wider controversy. I read in the local newspapers about Shanno Khan, 11, a Delhi schoolgirl had allegedly been punished at school but did not survive. Shanno's sisters, who attend the same government school, say that her teacher forced her to stand in the scorching sun for two hours until she fainted. She reportedly slipped into a coma and died in the hospital...
Deep Mathur, a spokesman for the MCD, says the agency has interviewed everyone who was present in school that day, including the students. During the inquiry, the principal and the other teachers backed the accused teacher's claim that she did not force Shanno to stand in the sun. If the MCD finds that the teacher was at fault, the case will be handed over to the police. India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights will make its own recommendations regarding action in this case in the next few days...
...that Souter has made the decision to leave the court when it finishes its term in June, Washington will turn its attention to whom Obama might nominate to replace him. Souter's reliably liberal stand on issues means that the President's choice won't change the balance of the court on any of the high-profile social issues it handles, like abortion, civil rights or the death penalty. But it does present the President with both political opportunities and challenges, as well as a test of what is thought to be his center-left judicial outlook...