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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...
...moving toward a wartime footing. The Department of Education is encouraging schools to prepare take-home study packets so kids can continue learning if their schools close. The Department of Labor has been drafting guidance for employers who may be hit by thousands of parents who need to stay home with their kids. All of it is being done very quickly for a threat that is unknowable and, scientists say, fast approaching. "Early on, there were some folks who said you can't go out and talk about this because we don't have all the facts," says John Brennan...
...chief mantra for everyone - wash your hands, cough into your sleeve, stay home if you're sick - will be repeated endlessly over the coming months in ad campaigns, public-service announcements and the media. For instance, the current advice for healthy people who get a fever and cough without other serious complications, such as an inability to eat or drink or difficulty breathing, is to stay home and not visit doctors or hospitals, which may be overburdened dealing with people who are more severely sick. At the height of the spring flu outbreak, hospitals were overwhelmed by crowds, including large...
...yoghurt option) is thrown in, and you could very well be enjoying it on trestle tables in a centuries-old, wood-paneled dining hall, under the stern gaze of portraits of college worthies. Afterward, you're free to stroll around your adopted college's grounds. If your overnight stay has given you a taste for Oxford behind the scenes, you could also try taking the entertaining 90-minute guided tour from Oxford Walking Tours, www.oxfordwalkingtours.com, which gives access to off-limits areas and costs around...
...been hanged - the legally required method of capital punishment - since 1987. President Mwai Kibaki said that commuting all of the country's death sentences would help alleviate the "undue mental anguish and suffering, psychological trauma and anxiety" that comes with being consigned to death row for an "extended stay." (See pictures of violence in Kenya...