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...personal-hygiene habits led to a reduction in the spread of infection. But as the threat of the disease died down, so too did people's standards of cleanliness. Lenis says that the Bolivian government is committed to continuing its media campaigns and that ongoing potable-water and sewage-system expansion projects will help make Bolivians healthier. Most important, however, is keeping up the education, says Lenis. "Adults forget or think [hand-washing is] not necessary anymore, but kids get into it as an activity," he says, adding that he's lobbying to make hand-washing education part...
...think Americans want a strong two-party system and want to see the loyal opposition challenge the assumptions and ideas of the party in power,” said Axelrod. “But they want it done in a constructive way, and sometimes, in the last ten months, we haven’t seen that...
...time, playing it out seemed like a fine idea: lose it all or win everything back. The lights flashing from his computer screen, the adrenaline, and the late hour made the whole enterprise seem like a video game—with dollars as the points system. How simple it seemed. And yet, how perilous: his entire bank account gone in the time it takes most people to get a good night’s sleep...
Harvard is testing new emergency notification protocols on 20,000 users today in an assessment of its “MessageMe” system, which experienced functionality problems during the Kirkland House shooting incident last spring...
...Folks go in, they use the system, they practice sending a message, sending a message to a specific group,” said Susan Walsh, the acting Chief Information Officer at the University Information Systems. She added that students who choose not to receive emergency text messages can now also be alerted to emergencies through e-mails, Twitter, Facebook “fan pages,” and RSS feeds...