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...they're in my favor. Of almost 400,000 who have received the shot so far, the Pentagon reports only 102 "adverse reactions" (with just 14 serious enough to warrant time off from work). Meanwhile, various news articles quote anti-inoculation groups as saying the figure is about a thousand. So, if I split the difference and quadruple the military's numbers - to, say, 400 - that's still 1,000 to 1 that I come away with nothing worse than a bump on my arm, which...
...campus wants to go to a [council] dance" that is in the Quad and dry. But the great majority of dances at this school are "dry," and we all know that those who want to drink do so before the dances anyway. Plus, the Quad is home to several thousand Harvard students and dances there are usually filled to capacity...
Focusing on more pressing issues than counting bodies, Mozambique has not updated the official death toll for more than a week, when it was still at only 150, but estimates cite several thousand deaths. And another cyclone looming off the coast of Mozambique as well as outbreaks of disease will most likely cost even more lives...
...even more disturbing is the juxtaposition of these two disasters. North Carolina lost fifty of its residents, Mozambique a few thousand. Floyd caused tens of thousands of people to spend nights at shelters or with relatives and friends; the catastrophe in Mozambique resulted in hundreds of thousands of displaced people. Yet, the damage estimate for Floyd easily topped a billion dollars. Mozambique's president estimated the aid his country would need over the next year to be approximately $250 million...
Coach and Chief know everyone's name and at their semi-weekly open houses they serve several thousand pieces of their famous monkey-bread...