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...Spain and the U.S., where the number of confirmed cases more than doubled to 43 - 28 of them students at the same New York City high school. (All the U.S. patients have thus far recovered with few complications.) The deteriorating situation prompted the U.S. State Department to recommend that travelers postpone "nonessential travel" to Mexico - even after U.S. officials criticized the European Union for issuing a travel ban to the U.S. and Mexico. (See five things you need to know about swine...
...clearly too late for that now - the swine flu virus has jumped across borders, and both the WHO and CDC have acknowledged that containment is no longer an option. So, while raising the alert level, the WHO also recommended that countries do not close borders or impose travel bans. "Restricting travel would have very little effect on stopping the movement of this virus," said Fukuda. At this point, trying to close borders would be like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted - better to focus on community-level protections like better disease surveillance and hygiene. (Read "Battling Swine...
...dancing Christmas tree. I danced the entire route. I wasn’t even on a float, so I had to travel,” she says...
Moreover, the College can also help to expand student options by advising undergrads on various January opportunities, both within the U.S. and abroad. A well-structured advising program—replete with information about international experiences, internships, coursework, research, and travel funding—would be a very effective way to facilitate valuable experiences for students. For such a program to be effective, however, the College must work quickly to find and publicize these opportunities to students, who are no doubt anxious about where they will be in January...
...Food and Culture,” gave students a crash course in Israeli food and culinary traditions. The history of Jewish and Israeli food is largely intertwined with Israel’s turbulent history, but according to Ben-Yehoyada, “what we eat doesn’t travel along the same lines as our politics.” The region’s culinary identity began to take shape in the decades following Israel’s formation—in 1948, the United Kingdom terminated the British Mandate of Palestine, which had placed the region under British...