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...results paint a bleak picture of the global status of mammals worldwide," the study's authors wrote in Science. "Within our lifetime, hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions," said Julie Marton-Lefevre, the IUCN's director-general, at the organization's annual congress in Barcelona. "We must now set clear targets for the future to reverse this trend to ensure that our enduring legacy is not to wipe out many of our closest relatives...
...there is nowhere else it can go. It will be lost. That story is being repeated throughout much of the world, where mammals like the Iberian Lynx, the Pere David's Deer in China and the Tasmanian Devil are all listed as threatened or worse on the IUCN's annual Red List of endangered species...
Getting a flu shot is an annual rite of passage - or at least, according to U.S. health officials, it should be. For the first time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends this year that all children aged six months through 18 years receive the flu vaccine; previous advisories included children only up to five years...
...which means that, as this study's results show, we need to become more realistic when it comes to our expectations of the annual flu shot. There is no guarantee that it will work, but on a population level, odds are that it's better to get a flu shot than not. "We all recognize that the influenza vaccine is not as effective as the polio vaccine, or the measles vaccine," says Schaffner. "It's not a great vaccine, but it is quite a good vaccine. We are not going to eliminate influenza through the use of this vaccine...
...knew how bad things had gotten here: The Crimson’s annual senior survey showed that nearly a fifth of work-force bound students in the Class of 2008 were going into business, finance and consulting without considering them ideal careers. A fifth of some of the brightest minds in the country are sulking, at this very moment, behind their desks as they crunch numbers in Manhattan. They could not be saved, President Faust. But at least the Class of 2009 could...