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...Given the risks of mass vaccination, the decision to launch a program can be fraught. According to Jacob Weisberg's book The Bush Tragedy, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were split in 2002 over whether to administer a nationwide smallpox vaccination program in the U.S. Cheney said that doing so would be a prudent counterterrorism step. Bush overruled him because the program could have resulted in dozens of deaths. (Statistical analysis has shown that the smallpox vaccine kills between one and two people per million inoculated.) Health officials don't always get the decision right...
...about climate change at a daylong summit on Sept. 22. But his speech, which contained high emotion and few concrete specifics on how much the U.S. would actually cut greenhouse-gas emissions, disappointed some. It was remarkable, after eight years of stonewalling from former President George W. Bush, to see a U.S. leader rally the rest of the world to combat global warming, but Obama kept his carbon promises vague, suggesting his limits. (Read "A Wind Shift in the Global Warming Debate...
...plan - still under development and, like everything else about Wikipedia, in flux - means that the online encyclopedia will undergo a far less momentous change than was previously reported. Wikipedia has long imposed tight controls on articles about boldface names - entries on Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Britney Spears, among roughly 3,000 others, are "semi-protected," meaning they can't be edited by anonymous surfers. Wales says that, at least initially, the new flagged-protection plan will probably apply to the same set of controversial articles, which are most prone to vandalism. But the vast majority of articles - even...
Drawing on his experience while working closely with President George W. Bush, Wilder addressed a wide range of U.S.-China policy issues including North Korea, Iran, Tibet, the economy, Chinese nationalism, and the military...
...Alex W. Palmer ’12, a member of the IOP forum committee, said he enjoyed the event despite Uribe’s somewhat evasive responses. “People like him got to where they are in the world by knowing how to spin questions to say what they want to say,” Palmer noted...