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...prepared are we for all that? Not very. To its credit, this Administration has struggled to get ahead of the curve. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson considered influenza among his highest priorities. In his last speech as Secretary, he called it his gravest concern. Under him, funding for influenza increased 1,000% despite opposition from House Republicans, who took the threat seriously only after last year's vaccine debacle, when almost half the nation's supply became unavailable because of contamination...
...engineers [and] program managers" led to the service's procurement scandals, which forced the Pentagon to take control of major aircraft purchases. Moseley pledged "to get the right people back into that process." Fitzgerald, for one, says he's ready to help: "I have unfinished business here." --By Mark Thompson...
...best tracks on the album—“Get Him Back” and “Not About Love”—with the Roots’ drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson. This collaboration adds a unique funk which brings new depth to Apple’s heavy piano rifts...
...veiled childhood autobiography and transformed them into masterpieces of their form. But since graphic novels have gotten such a late start in finding a serious-minded audience, the coming-of-age story has only recently gotten enough work to even be called a sub-genre. Two years ago Craig Thompson's mammoth-sized Blankets, about growing up in the devout Christian hinterlands of Wisconsin, became the first such work to gain both critical and popular success. This month will see the arrival of two more very strong books based on the authors' childhood. Harvey Pekar's The Quitter, comes from...
...will be taken up by Jim Dyke, who was Republican National Committee (RNC) communications director during the reelection campaign and now runs a consulting firm, Jim Dyke & Associates, in Charleston, S.C. Aides tell TIME that the confirmation team for Harriet Miers, Bush's second nominee, will not include Fred Thompson, the Law and Order actor and former senator from Tennessee, who served as adviser/shepherd to Roberts. Thompson's schedule does not allow it, the aides said. Ed Gillespie, the lobbyist and former RNC chairman, will take on some of those duties but will leave his full-time status...