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However ill-conceived people’s conceptions of vaccines may be, they should not be forced to take them for fear of losing their jobs. Though such a solution may require compromise, a mandatory H1N1 vaccine would be a step in the wrong direction. Unless such a vaccine is proven absolutely critical for the performance of their job, health workers’ right to choose must be protected...
...these pieces take time," says Christopher Anders, the ACLU's senior legislative counsel. "It's hard to see how the government can short-circuit the significant start-up time that's going to be needed. "After all this work," he said of the commissions, "we'll see if they end up getting used...
...ensuring final passage of health-care reform. Republicans counter that that is precisely the problem. Not only is the move a transparent ploy to get physicians onboard the reform bill, said Senator Jon Kyl, the No. 2 Senate Republican, "I also see it as a transparent way to take the deficit off the table." Republicans have called the move a budget trick, one of many Democrats are using, they say, to help keep down the final price tag of the reform bill; they insist it actually costs more than $1.2 trillion over 10 years instead of the less than...
...sale - which ranges in style from Biedermeier to Swedish Modern - and there's a cozy ambience. Kick back on an Art Deco settee and enjoy the auctioneer's banter: "Now here's a tiger-fabric chaise longue. Remember Eartha Kitt? She would have liked it, but if you take this home I think your husband would definitely leave you." Sales are every Monday at 5 p.m., and lots start as low as $20. See criterion-auctioneers.co.uk for details...
...genuine attempt to change the way policing is done, but it will take a generation to make a start, not one or five or 10 years," says Tom Phillips, co-director of Dancing with the Devil, a new film about traffickers and cops in a Rio favela. "But resources are stretched, and they are doing it in just a handful of communities out of a thousand. If they tried doing it in 20 or 50, then they'd do a bad job in all of them." (Read "Can Rio Handle the 2016 Olympics...