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...Syracuse, N.Y., has stocked up on surgical masks and fever-fighting Tylenol. Harvard officials are meeting daily to monitor the situation and speaking directly with state and local public-health authorities for advice. San Diego City College is offering on its website a printable template for COVER YOUR COUGH signs. "We're being duly cautious," says Caroline Oyama, director of communications at the New School in New York City, which sent a memo to its 6,000 undergraduates this week urging them to wash their hands often and stay home if they're feeling sick. "You never know what...
...most important lessons we can learn from the SARS outbreak, says Peiris, may be the simplest ones, taught by mothers the world over: wash your hands, cover your mouth when you cough and avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. The message seems to have sunk in in Hong Kong, where even on days without deadly flu threats many people wear face masks and hand-sanitizer dispensers are just about everywhere. There's no question that Hong Kong is as prepared as it can be to tackle swine flu, but for now, just like the rest of the world...
...trek over to UHS where they will hopefully treat you with something stronger than ibuprofen. And as we learned before with Babson norovirus outbreak, washing your hands is the best way to avoid getting sick. "The most important thing for staying healthy is good hygiene," Rosenthal says. "When you cough, you should cough into your elbow, and not into the phone or onto your friends...
...notably the seamless transition between initial derision and the audience’s eventual, benevolent embracement of her—that has been the driving force behind Boyle’s recent popularity. It comes as no surprise then that the most willfully nasty among us—cough, cough, “Got Talent” creator Simon Cowell—seem so drawn to the concept of Susan Boyle. Upon any sort of consideration, however, the idea of “a Susan Boyle” reveals itself to be as artificial as Cowell’s malevolent...
...world's biggest free file-sharing sites, guilty of breaching copyright law for allowing its users to illegally access music, movies and TV shows online. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom were sentenced to a year in jail, and ordered to cough up $3.6 million to a raft of entertainment firms - from EMI to Columbia Pictures - bilked, said the court, out of valuable revenues. The decision, said John Kennedy, boss of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the global music business, was "good news for everyone ... making a living or a business from...