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Eighteen-year-old Democrat Alexander J. Gallichon—an Extension School student working toward a degree in 2010—is hoping to become the youngest state representative in New Hampshire’s history in next Tuesday’s election.Gallichon, who graduated from Nashua High School South in Nashua, N.H., last May, started a consulting business, and, fittingly, began taking government classes at Harvard this fall.If elected, he says he would remain enrolled in the Extension School while representing wards 5, 8, and 9, roughly the southern portion of Nashua.Gallichon says he decided to run for public...
...ethical quandary: If the U.S. faced a deadly flu pandemic with only a limited supply of vaccine, who should get treated? Federal guidelines--and conventional wisdom--give priority to health-care workers, the youngest, the frail and the elderly. But Minnesota is the first state to suggest otherwise. A panel including government officials, doctors and ethicists concluded that inoculations should be given first to key workers like police and nurses, then to those who would respond best to treatment--healthy 15-to-40-year-olds, not infants or seniors. "A worst-case scenario poses the hardest questions," says panelist Karen...
...administration that is less than a month old, North Korea's nuclear shocker posed a difficult trial by fire. But Abe?at 52, Japan's youngest postwar Prime Minister?has aced his debut on the world stage, showing decisiveness and deft diplomacy that have heartened his supporters and confounded his critics. Not only has the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader demonstrated his willingness to play hardball with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, he has also displayed a conciliatory side during fence-mending visits to China and South Korea aimed at easing strained relations between Japan and its neighbors...
...last week, says Desai, the stress was worse than ever?because this time, the finalist was her daughter Kiran. Roused by her sister-in-law at 5 a.m. on Oct. 11, Anita turned on the television to see that Kiran, at age 35, had become the youngest woman ever to win the Booker. "I wanted it so much for her," says Anita, speaking from the family's residence in New Delhi. "It's far more intense to have my daughter listed and win than to be shortlisted for it myself. I would have been more unhappy than...
...world." When he discovered mountaineering, inspired by a book by the great Japanese adventurer Naomi Uemura, he knew he had found that world. The alpine prodigy began scaling every mountain he could find, and when he conquered Everest in 1999 after two failures, Noguchi became, at the time, the youngest person ever to climb the tallest peaks on all seven continents...