Word: summer
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...with Georgia last year. Russia admits that the exercises--which are scheduled to end on July 6, the day President Obama arrives for his first official visit to Moscow--are "quite major" but says they're simply for practice. Tbilisi is worried they presage another attack similar to last summer's skirmish over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Georgia has readied its armed forces in the event of another Russian invasion...
Even USA Network's escapist Royal Pains has a class-conscious premise. Idealistic Dr. Hank Lawson gets fired when he chooses to save a young patient's life before treating a hospital board member. He takes a job as a "concierge doctor" to rich summer people in New York's Hamptons, treating everything from hemophilia to deflated breast implants. It's fluff, but with a theme of modern medical feudalism: top docs attending the richest like courtiers. If your hospital waiting room has cable, watch it sometime...
...Urged on by a coalition of over 15 Harvard student organizations, University Health Services approved a two-year subsidy for the then-newly available vaccine Gardasil in the summer of 2007, reducing the cost of the three-shot treatment from $154 to $25 per shot...
...members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will meet in Copenhagen to decide the host city for the 2016 Summer Games. Officials from Chicago, which is competing against Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo for the Olympic prize, are working feverishly to perfect their pitch down the homestretch. The Chicago delegation just returned from Africa, where it made a presentation to the Olympic executives of that continent. President Obama himself sent a video message, asking the Africans for their vote...
...Japanese economy continues to struggle, Japanese people are voicing their readiness for political change - and they'll get a chance to vote on it before the summer ends. (Read "A Reprieve for Japan's Embattled Leader...