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...historian Roger Chartier describes the impact of the “tripling or quadrupling of book production” on French readers in the decades before the revolution and how “a new way of reading, which no longer took the book as authoritative, became widespread.” In this era, the new innovation, so to speak, could be called the individualized text—the pamphlet or the periodical or the easily reproducible book, which allowed people to read on their own time and by themselves, which, as Chartier argues, made pre-revolutionary Frenchmen into more...
...added that the causes for the vitamin deficiency are far more complex, including the increased amounts of time children now spend indoors, the widespread usage of sunscreen, and geographic location...
...Anger at the news was widespread in Germany. "If mass vaccination is considered to be necessary, then everyone should be treated the same way," says Birgitt Bender, health spokeswoman for the Green Party. Ulrike Mascher, head of the VdK social-welfare association, says giving government officials a vaccine that's different from that given to the rest of the population sent the "wrong signal" and gives many people "the impression that they are second-class patients." A story on the front page of the mass-circulation Bild newspaper accused the government of giving "second-class medicine" to regular Germans...
...activity, virtually all of it of the swine-flu variety, is now widespread in 46 states and at a level equal to the peak of a typical winter flu season, according to federal officials. Unlike the seasonal variety, which tends to be most harmful to those over 65 years old, swine flu skews far younger, which explains the large number of parents with children still dressed in their pajamas who waited hours outside the Encino clinic before the sun rose to get the vaccine. (The CDC found that more than half of the hospitalizations from 2009 H1N1 flu reported...
...speedy caveat: Don't panic. The declaration was just a formality, the White House explained, a way to allow hospitals to circumvent unnecessary restrictions in order to bring about quicker, more effective swine-flu treatment. Yes, H1N1 cases are on the rise - 46 of the 50 states are experiencing widespread influenza activity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - but it's hardly a horrific doomsday scenario and nothing like the movie Outbreak. And yet it's still an emergency. (See pictures of soccer in the time of swine...