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...With hordes of undergrads returning from spring-break trips across the border, campus health staffers are planning for the worst. By canceling summer programs in Mexico and stockpiling supplies, they're trying to stop outbreaks before they start - and at the same time attempting to reassure jittery students. At Columbia University in New York City - where a graduate student on Sunday received a diagnosis of Type A influenza, which has been linked to swine flu - the assistant vice president for health services, Dr. Samuel Seward, sent an e-mail to students urging them to cover their mouths when they sneeze...
...Republican Party shifts further away from center, Specter’s defection shows that being a successful Republican means moving toward political extremes, while being a moderate Republican means imminent unemployment. More importantly, it shows that the GOP is either drifting right on purpose or is just powerless to stop itself. Specter’s close defeat of Toomey in 2004 was likely thanks to a late endorsement from former President George W. Bush. In this way, the president protected the existence of moderate Republicans, keeping his party diverse and balanced. However, there is no such central authority in today?...
...subscribe will receive automatic gift certificates to b.good, burrito chain Qdoba, or the restaurant Grendel’s Den. All who sign up are entered to win prizes ranging from Red Sox tickets to an iPod touch, set to be raffled off May 2 by the Harvard T stop. The site is an unorthodox venture for Unofficial Tours, which is known for running cheeky campus tours year-round and for competing with the official Crimson Key Society tours for tourist attention. President and founder Daniel Andrew ’07 cited the company’s success in driving...
...really has been a present surprise for us with that arm, closing out some ballgames.”The Crimson may not have been in a position to win at all had it not been for a gutsy relief outing by sophomore pitcher Anthony Nutter. Coming in to stop the bleeding in the top of the first with his team down by seven, Nutter did what was required of him and more. The righty threw 6 1/3 stellar innings of four-hit ball, giving up just two runs on a homer by the Huskies’ Ryan Kemp...
...hard to calculate exactly how many of these tactics have helped stop the virus from spreading. In the first four days following April 24 when the government started taking action, the number of infected and dead rose steadily - from 58 reported fatalities on Friday to 149 dead by the tally on Monday. The total number of people who have been hospitalized for the infection shot up to more than 2,000, although two-thirds of these had checked out after successfully responding to anti-viral drugs. (Read a story about how the U.S. is preparing a swine flu vaccine...