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...Scientists would begin working on a vaccine based on the pandemic virus, but it currently takes about six months to produce a new flu vaccine. (By contrast, the most recent influenza pandemics in 1968 and 1957 crossed the globe in about four months - and that was before widespread jet travel.) The global manufacturing capacity for flu vaccine is around 500 million doses. That means that a new pandemic could well run its course and kill millions before anyone could get their hands on a new vaccine. Everyone - rich and poor - would be left out. At best, a previously stockpiled vaccine...
Rodriguez was a disaster at disaster relief, but she brought along some tools that proved providential. "I never travel without my scissors," she says in The Kabul Beauty School, her amusing, inspiring account of good intentions gone platinum, with streaks. Rodriguez had worked as a beautician in Michigan, and when word of her skills got out, fellow aid workers besieged her for haircuts. Before long, she realized her real destiny was training Afghanistan's oppressed, burqa-encased women to support themselves as hairdressers...
HELEN MIRREN, Oscar-winning star of The Queen, would rather break bread with Nic Cage than dine (by invitation) with the Queen of England. What could be more important than royalty? asks hipster travel guide JAUNTED, rhetorically. South Dakota! That's where Mirren is filming a National Treasure sequel. SCORE...
...class because of high textbook costs, they should not be dissuaded from enriching and valuable summer activities because they would have to go into debt—a reality that many students nonetheless face each year. There is a plethora of sources for summer funding for internships and travel, from Institute of Politics (IOP) stipends to the Dean’s Summer Research Awards. Most of those stipends, however, only cover living expenses, so the problem of a student’s summer contribution persists. Thankfully, there is a fairly simple solution: the Financial Aid Office (FAO) could waive...
...Home field] is big,” Harvard coach Jenny Allard said. “I definitely feel that not having to travel, being comfortable at home, it matters. It settles people, at least at the beginning...