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...this study, most of the children received the injected vaccine, but recent studies have shown that the nasal spray, known as FluMist, appears to be better at protecting youngsters from influenza (offering about the same level of protection as the injected vaccine in adults). In kids, says Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and an advisory member of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the nasal spray may help the immune system launch a broader and more diverse immune defense, since the vaccine contains weakened forms of live flu virus that replicate rapidly...
...direct diplomacy with Teheran is gaining on both sides of the partisan divide. Even former Republican Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, James Baker and Colin Powell have urged expanding direct contacts between the two nations, and the Bush Administration last July sent U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs William Burns sat down with diplomats from Iran and Europe to discuss the nuclear stand-off. Regardless of campaign-trail rhetoric, the need to talk directly to Tehran is fast becoming bipartisan conventional wisdom in the U.S. foreign policy establishment...
...part opera entitled “Redundancy, Again,” as well as various “Scientific Demonstrations” and other humorous skits. Marc Abrahams, the event’s lamé donning emcee, mingled with a host of others—including Nobel Prize Winners William Lipscomb and Benoit Mandelbrot—onstage. At one point, two lucky audience members won dates with the octogenarian Nobel laureates. One of the award recipients, Brent Jordan—who previously worked as bouncer at a gentlemen’s club in New Mexico—said...
...event featured a panel of three China experts: Kennedy School professor Anthony J. Saich, MIT professor Yasheng Huang ’85, and William H. Overholt ’68, the former director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy...
Harvard students may think they’re getting the best education in the world. Last night, 150 of them were told otherwise. A standing-room-only crowd packed the Tsai Auditorium in the Center for Government and International Studies yesterday to hear former Yale professor William Deresiewicz debate two undergraduates on the merits of “elite education.” The discussion panel, titled “The (dis)Advantages of an Elite Education,” was based on Deresiewicz’s controversial article of the same name, published in The American Scholar magazine, which...