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City Manager Robert W. Healy and his team presented the initial draft of Cambridge’s fiscal year 2010 budget yesterday, which projected a 2 percent increase over the adjusted 2009 budget...
...historical consultant to the CDC on flu pandemics, says the most vexing decision facing health officials is when to institute mass vaccination programs. Vaccines carry risks of complications, leading to agonizing ethical dilemmas. In 1976, Ford offered indemnity to the vaccine manufacturers. But according to reports, President George W. Bush decided in 2002 not to administer a nationwide smallpox vaccination program - despite Vice President Dick Cheney's belief that doing so was a prudent counterterrorism step - because it could have resulted in dozens of deaths (the smallpox vaccine kills between 1 and 2 people per million people inoculated...
...concerns over H5N1 avian flu, the WHO, the U.S. and countries around the world have stockpiled millions of doses of antivirals that can help fight swine flu as well as other strains of influenza. The U.S. has a detailed pandemic preparation plan that was drafted under former President George W. Bush. Many other countries have similar plans. SARS and bird flu have given international health officials useful practice runs for dealing with a real pandemic. We can identify new viruses faster than ever before, and we have life-saving technologies - like artificial respirators and antivirals - that weren't available back...
...President, turn around and look behind you. No one is following.' Vice President JOE BIDEN, recalling his rebuke to George W. Bush after the then President proclaimed himself a "leader" during a private meeting...
...students and parents looking for more information on the college experience had the opportunity to attend a Sunday afternoon panel discussion about “What It’s like to be a Harvard Freshman.” The panel-discussion, anchored by two students along with Katie W. Steele, the Freshman Dean’s Office director for freshman programming, and Sandra Naddaff, the acting director of the freshman seminar program, addressed questions dealing with freshman-faculty interaction, community growth, and the typical life of a Harvard College freshman. “When I was pre-frosh, what...