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...local students. "For most of the local health departments, they are not going to have the resources to do the job," Sherin says. "We are really going to be relying on volunteers to help us." In addition to turning to private-sector doctors and nurses to aid the effort, Sherin is looking into renting empty storefronts, reopening vacant schools and even using the downtown Amway Arena, home to the Orlando Magic professional basketball team, for mass-vaccination campaigns. "It could be a little bit of pandemic pandemonium in the beginning," he says. (See the 5 things you need to know...
...This new test would judge applicants on how they conduct themselves while living in the U.K. Choose to move to Scotland, where the population is declining? Win points. Exhibit antisocial behavior? Lose points. Return to your Third World native country to aid development? Win points. Display "active disregard" for U.K. values - which could include protesting the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan? Lose points. Prospective citizens may also be able to fast-track their candidacy by volunteering or canvassing for political parties. (See pictures of Iraq's revival...
Having successfully dodged demands by party delegates to account for the millions in missing aid money and donations that have flowed through Fatah's Central Committee over the past 20 years, many of Arafat's defeated cronies clambered into their limousines and sped across the Jordan Valley to their plush villas in Amman. Many of Fatah's leadership live in exile and cling to the demand that all Palestinians turned into refugees by the creation of Israel in 1948 be allowed to return to their confiscated land and homes. Successive Israeli governments have refused to recognize a right of return...
...Daniels have spent the bulk of their working lives searching for a virus that could cause a pandemic. Now they are watching a pandemic unfold in front of their eyes. When he talks about influenza, Daniels tends to use his hand as a visual aid, cupping his palm to mimic the virus's spherical structure and pretending his curled fingers are the sphere's protein spikes. As he looks down at his hand, his face breaks into a wry smile. "Forget the pandemic strain for a second and consider seasonal flu," he says. "How this virus can continue to evolve...
Chutzpah is the term that comes to mind when reading Israel Katz's response to President Obama's efforts to solve the West Bank--settlement issue. Israel accepted $2.4 billion in aid last year from U.S. taxpayers, yet the Katz family and fellow settlers tell us to "butt out." Californians could use that money to ease our budget crisis, and we know better than to bite the hand that feeds us--even when it's our money in the first place. Doris Concklin, CARMICHAEL, CALIF...