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...chief mantra for everyone - wash your hands, cough into your sleeve, stay home if you're sick - will be repeated endlessly over the coming months in ad campaigns, public-service announcements and the media. For instance, the current advice for healthy people who get a fever and cough without other serious complications, such as an inability to eat or drink or difficulty breathing, is to stay home and not visit doctors or hospitals, which may be overburdened dealing with people who are more severely sick. At the height of the spring flu outbreak, hospitals were overwhelmed by crowds, including large...
...hired by the German television channel SAT 1 for a broadcast that day. Since the reclusive Jackson refused to go out in public in West Berlin, Sat1 reporters decided to hire their own double and see how Berliners reacted. They hired limousines and body guards, fooling the public, local media, and, as we now know, the notorious Stasi secret police. The coup was so successful that it worked again 20 years later when Jackson's Stasi file, and the infamous pictures, emerged. This time SAT 1 nearly fell for its own prank. "We certainly would have fallen for the Stasi...
...Worried that Areva may be headed for even bigger problems, the French government, which owns 90% of the company, demanded an internal review earlier this year. French media reports speculated that Lauvergeon could get the heave-ho as part of the evaluation, which looked at finances and strategy. The government was also reportedly upset that Lauvergeon continued to resist pressure from the Elysée to meld Areva with private French engineering company Alstom and private construction giant Bouygues to create a national nuclear megacompany...
...conservative, you must feel as if you're swimming upstream sometimes, as so much of youth culture is aligned with Democrats. Conservatism is under the radar sometimes. The media does a good job portraying conservatives as old white men who smoke cigars, but that's not it at all. I'm here with hundreds of conservative kids today. I actually think of a lot them are afraid to express themselves for fear their peers might look differently at them. I've had liberal professors who would purposefully single me out and say things just to get me riled...
...does she keep getting so much attention? It seems the media and the public can't get enough. Conservatives feel like she's someone they can relate to and believe in. Liberals vilify her and make fun of her constantly, and I think that's because they're afraid of her and know she's going to be there in the future. She's not going away. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...