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...mine has arrived, in the form of the anthrax vaccination program that has been decreed mandatory for all service personnel whose near future includes a trip to the wrong corner of the world. Around here, we call it The Shot, and because my New York reserve unit is bound for South Korea in September, it's coming in March to an arm near me. And suddenly, it's soldier time...
Congressman Chris Shays (R-Conn.), chairman of the House Government Reform national security subcommittee, has a problem with the part about "known." He calls the vaccine primitive and untested and dubbed the mandatory vaccination program "a gigantic mistake," and his panel has called for the Pentagon to make the shots optional until a better version comes along. But Shays doesn't have anywhere near the votes needed to get the shots stopped. Ask folks around here about Congress riding to my rescue, and they shake their heads and smile...
...wish the program was voluntary? Sure. I joined the Army fully realizing that they use real bullets out there, and real warheads, and came in fully prepared to risk dying of all the threats I thought I'd accounted for. But if I had a clean choice I'd call William Cohen tomorrow, thank him sincerely for his concern (and wish him luck with the shot hetook) and happily take my chances with the Koreans. But of course that's not how the order-giving business works, and if you want to be in it, whether for Country, Adventure...
...systems. Undergraduates and the UHS staff were both catalysts for the change--and for good reason. UHS staff benefit from the new appointment system because they will have access to provider's schedules for a week at a time and can view multiple schedules at once. The new computer program serves students better because it eases the process of making an appointment and grants more privacy to those utilizing UHS, especially with regard to scheduling mental health appointments...
Under D'Alessandro's proposal, the school would use curriculum developed by Core Knowledge, a national organization that would tailor its program to specific state standards...