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...late April, Dominguez Trunnell, who was eight months pregnant, became ill with what would eventually be confirmed as H1N1 flu. While the vast majority of victims of the virus - there have been more than 4,700 probable and confirmed cases in the U.S. - have recovered without complications, Dominguez Trunnell grew sicker, eventually being placed on a ventilator. Early this month Dominguez Trunnell passed away, weeks after her baby daughter was delivered via cesarean section. "She was a fun and caring person," Trunnell tells TIME. "She didn't deserve this." (See pictures of H1N1 flu hitting Mexico...
...percent reduction in its contribution to faculty pension funds, which had not been discussed with faculty members beforehand. The aim of the committee was to provide an avenue for communications about staff and faculty benefits. But after a University-wide committee was founded a year later, the FAS committee grew irrelevant and soon stopped meeting, according to science professor Gary J. Feldman, a founding member of both the FAS and University-wide committees. At Wednesday’s meeting, the Standing Committee on Faculty Research Support, the Standing Committee on Privacy, Accessibility, and Security of Records, and the Standing Committee...
...Born the second of four children in 1956 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Charles Joseph "Charlie" Crist grew up in St. Petersburg, FL, the grandson of immigrants. His last name - often mispronounced "Christ" - is the Anglicized version of the Greek name "Christodoulou...
...before each town's dishes were calcified into classics. While every highway Olive Garden and Chili's hinders that dynamism, local cuisine is not gone yet. "There is no national hot-dog chain," says Stern. "That's because people are so loyal to the hot dog with which they grew up." So maybe we're not quite Europe. That doesn't mean we don't care about our food...
...Intel's fine is the largest ever by the Commission, dwarfing the previous record of $675 million (at current exchange rate) on Microsoft in 2004. However, the Microsoft fines grew to $1.16 billion last year because the software giant failed to comply with the original 2004 ruling. (See pictures of the dangers of printing money in Germany...