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...prioritize. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified the groups that should get the very first doses, and the list did not contain many surprises: pregnant women, children between 6 months and 4 years of age, anyone in a household who has contact with kids younger than 6 months old, health-care workers who have direct patient contact and all kids ages 5 to 18 who have underlying medical problems. "[Prioritization] is a very important step for planning vaccinations in the fall," says Anne Schuchat, director for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases...
...epic could use a little dusting off. The younger generation of Indians, not to mention non-Indians who haven't grown up listening to the epics stories, find the long, complicated tale too difficult to follow. Even in modern retellings - of which there are many - the Hindu philosophy, the wide cast of characters, and the scope of the tale make the Mahabharata a challenging read. Sreedharan says he wants to simplify the story and make it accessible to both young Indians and foreigners alike. "Without giving it the canopy of an epic, if it's projected as just a tale...
...only 1,900 r.p.m. (the typical sedan would be somewhere around 2,500 r.p.m.), which means it's surprisingly, pleasingly quiet. Yes, it still roars when you floor it. But Chevy has made the Camaro suitable for 40- and 50-year-olds with balky backs and memories of younger days. The chairs are older-suburban-guy comfy, as if they had come out of a Malibu...
...rejected. The same thing had happened to most of the other graduates in his scholarship program. "Thousands of graduates are coming out every year with talent and skills, but they cannot get jobs because those in higher posts are not professionals, so they are threatened by the younger generations who really know something...
...Kyuma, former defense minister and LDP representative of Nagasaki-prefecture, has recently made the rounds in order to secure a 10th term now that he's up against 28-year-old female DPJ candidate Eriko Fukuda. Fukuda not only represents the DPJ in age (on average, DPJ members are younger than LDP members), she also literally embodies opposition to LDP oversight. Fukuda is one of many Japanese infected with hepatitis C by tainted blood products that were distributed between the 1970s and early 1990s, a case for which the ruling coalition accepted responsibility. (See pictures of Japan and the world...