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...simmering beneath these national numbers is a trend that's working in the microbes' favor-and against ours. Spurred by claims that vaccinations can be linked to autism, increasing numbers of parents are raising questions about whether vaccines, far from panaceas, are actually harmful to children. When the immune system of a baby or young child is just coming online, is it such a good idea to challenge it with antigens to so many bugs? Have the safety, efficacy and side effects of this flood of inoculations really been worked through? Just last month the U.S. government, which has always...
...Mailer’s $2.5 million sale to the University of Texas in 2005. “Harvard wanted Norman to give them his papers, but instead he sold them to Texas,” the person told the Globe. “Buying this stuff now is so beneath Harvard.” But according to Leslie A. Morris, Harvard’s curator of modern books and manuscripts, Harvard did not purchase Mallory’s archive as a retaliatory act. “Anger is not a part of the purchasing of this archive...
...thousands of people still missing, time is becoming a serious threat. Three days after the quake, the odds of buried victims emerging alive have declined vastly. A three-year-old girl named Song Xinyi was pulled safely from beneath the bodies of her parents in a collapsed house Wednesday in Beichuan, Xinhua reported...
...more frequently the recovery efforts end up like the search for Shu Zehong, a female worker at the Dongfang Turbine Works in the mountainside town of Hanwang. The mining and manufacturing center, which sits beneath mountains covered in pine and bamboo, was ravaged by the quake. At a public square an outdoor clock is frozen at 2:28 p.m., the minute the tremor struck. Nearby a 20-foot tall statue of a rider on a horse was decapitated during the quake, and the rider's head now sits upturned at its base. Many buildings on its main street were toppled...
...thing I have learned during my field work is that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US, with not one exception, takes himself or herself a bit too seriously. Better to take the long view, and dig beneath the surface of careful annunciation and polished rhetoric. You will quickly discover that the musings of our classmates are often by turns pretentious, frivolous, and absurd...