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...Mobilization If H1N1 is too widespread to contain, we're less sure how it will move through the coming northern winter. In the southern hemisphere, where it is winter now, the virus has been spreading fast, but with a low mortality rate. On Aug. 5, Argentina reported that deaths from H1N1 had more than doubled to 337 from 165 two weeks earlier, with around 700,000 suspected cases of the disease so far. The impact has been widespread. Attendance has dropped at Patagonian ski resorts, and flu fears have crippled the Buenos Aires theater business. Across the region, countries...
...Justice Department under now Attorney General Eric Holder swung wide open. Since April, Brown has been working for Holder as head of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). Long considered a DOJ backwater, OPR assumed a higher profile in the final years of the Bush Administration amid widespread allegations of attorney misconduct, from the use of political litmus tests in hiring to improper firing of U.S. Attorneys. (Read "Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days...
...Last year the International Journal of Obesity published a paper by Gortmaker and Kendrin Sonneville of Children's Hospital Boston noting that "there is a widespread assumption that increasing activity will result in a net reduction in any energy gap" - energy gap being the term scientists use for the difference between the number of calories you use and the number you consume. But Gortmaker and Sonneville found in their 18-month study of 538 students that when kids start to exercise, they end up eating more - not just a little more, but an average of 100 calories more than they...
Iran's hard-line regime sharply escalated the postelection confrontation on Aug. 8 by putting two foreign embassy staffers and a French teacher on trial alongside dozens of political dissidents. The stepped-up campaign to characterize the widespread unrest since the June 12 presidential election as a foreign-led attempted "soft overthrow" appears to be an effort by the ruling faction to rally the increasingly splintered conservative base against a popular - and old - enemy: the West...
Balancing the social costs of widespread school closures - including the risk of unsupervised children at home - against the potential health risks of remaining open, government officials advised schools to not shut down in most cases. "If there are a handful of [flu] cases in a school, the real goal is to keep the school open," Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told reporters at a press conference also attended by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden...