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...premature to say we've passed the [outbreak's] most worrisome moment." But the positive flu-containment news coming from the government may well put public pressure on Calderón to let businesses like restaurants open sooner than the end of the long Cinco de Mayo weekend on Tuesday. With few people on the streets on what is usually a bustling Mexico holiday, businessmen like taxi driver Francisco Diaz are chafing. "I've been driving all day and all I've got to show for it is 60 pesos [$4.60]," says Diaz. "It's like we've protected ourselves...
...least according to John G. Ekizian, public relations consultant for Stephen Wolfram, an internet guru who dropped by Harvard Law School Tuesday to demonstrate his new product, Wolfram Alpha...
...Tuesday, at the University's Berkman Center for Internet and Technology, Wolfram showed examples of possible questions and answers that the technology provides. Type in "Lexington, MA", and the product will generate population, weather, and information about nearby cities. Type in "life expectancy" of a particular age group and there will be graphs drawn to match your request. It's a "knowledge machine," according to Ekizian, and has already been called by one technology blog "really important and significant...
...hand, Mexico's response has been largely effective: measures taken by President Felipe Calderon and his health officials, as well as Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, appear to have stabilized the outbreak. Those measures included the closure of all but the most essential businesses and government services Friday through Tuesday, the nation's long Cinco de Mayo holiday weekend. On Thursday, for example, the government reported that the daily number of new suspected cases is now about a fifth of what it was less than a week ago. That "makes us optimistic," said Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova...
Harvard Medical School announced Tuesday that it will launch a program later this month in conjunction with the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education to foster collaborative medical research and education and to develop infrastructure for health information sharing in Portugal. The program, which will involve Portugal’s seven major medical schools and various major biomedical research laboratories, represents the culmination of a two-year planning and discussion process initiated by the Portuguese government, according to Tomas Kirchhausen, an HMS cell biology professor and one of the architects of the program. One major goal...