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...month and a half - working 24 hours a day - to deliver the vaccine to all the 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 aide the effort, Sherin is looking into renting empty storefronts, reopening vacant schools and even using the downtown Amway Arena, home to the Orlando Magic, for mass-vaccination campaigns. "It could be a little bit of pandemic pandemonium...
...rise in body temperature, and Tamiflu was broadly administered, despite federal recommendations. The pandemic was integrated into normal camp life, just another reality like bug bites and sunburn. "The kids made light of it. It was just the flu," says Howie Salzberg, the camp's director. To help pass the time, quarantined kids were given access to television, DVDs and video games, causing some healthier campers to feel jealous. "They were saying, 'How do I get sick?' " Salzberg says...
...decades, public-school parents have organized such fundraising events to cover the costs of field trips, sports equipment and other frills that enrich their children's education. Yet now, as recession clouds hang ever lower and state budgets tighten, schools and districts are increasingly asking adults to help pay for essentials. Parents are under pressure to bring in big bucks for supplies, technology and even, in some cases, staff salaries. That's a lot of sugar cookies...
While Seoul's project may help women "worry less about harassment or violence," Chang says, "the question remains about how to share the household chores and responsibilities" so that women can more freely enter - and stay - in the labor market. Eunyoung Cho, a 25-year-old who will be leaving Seoul this fall to pursue a degree in economics at the University of California, Davis, also questions its efficacy, saying the project seems more political than personal. "The policies make the citizens feel that their mayor is doing something, but they do not feel the changes in their lives...
...penalty on those convicted of armed robbery, murder and treason. But death row inmates find themselves relegated to criminal purgatory because no one has been hanged - the legally required method of capital punishment - since 1987. President Mwai Kibaki said that commuting all of the country's death sentences would help alleviate the "undue mental anguish and suffering, psychological trauma and anxiety" that comes with being consigned to death row for an "extended stay." (See pictures of violence in Kenya...