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Starting in April, sudsy cartoon hands were everywhere, promoting hand-washing on billboards, at soccer games, in classrooms and on TV. "[Nayeli] was taught at school, and then would remind us to do it at home," says Claudia Quispe, Nayeli's mom. It's not that she and her family didn't wash their hands before, explains Quispe, an indigenous Aymara shop owner, but they didn't do it as much or as thoroughly as they should have. Within her family, Quispe thinks the public-health campaign has been a success: "Normally both Nayeli and my 3-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: H1N1: Swine Flu's Collateral Health Benefits in Bolivia | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...Winthrop hospital on New York's Long Island, the signs are everywhere. They're posted at every nurses' station, papered above the security panels against which employees swipe their ID cards and even attached to paychecks. The notices are there to remind the hospital's staff - which includes everyone from the doctors and nurses who care for patients to the administrative, housekeeping and food-service personnel - that every employee must be vaccinated against both seasonal and H1N1 flu or face possible termination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Health-Care Workers Be Forced to Get Flu Shots? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...four living Presidents who preceded him in office. Bush already enjoys a good relationship with Clinton. If Bush is not the most active former President, he is certainly the gamest: he jumped out of an airplane to mark his 85th birthday last summer, as he said recently, "to remind people that getting older doesn't mean you have to slow down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Obama Meets Bush 41: A Bipartisan Boost? | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...connect to aspects of Max's psyche and to the people he loves. (Freud would adore this movie.) They are vast, feathered, horned, clawed, beaked and definitely wild - irrational and dangerous, even when showing affection - and Jonze uses their threatening bulk as well as their capacity for cruelty to remind us that Max's taming of them is only temporary. For any child, it is near impossible to stay king of anything, even in fantasy. (Read "Box-Office Weekend: Mighty Meatballs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Wild Things Are: Sendak with Sensitivity | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

...possible, though, that the committee may have done Obama one favor: the prize may remind him that the person most responsible for his employment status today is George W. Bush. Obama ran a good campaign, sure, but he resonated with Democrats and then with other Americans because he looked and sounded and acted like change. And while the Nobel crowd's fury over Bush may be over the top, it's a reminder that he was a uniquely unpopular leader who left the U.S. in a uniquely lousy situation. Obama was never more popular than he was when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Nobel: Another Slap at George W. Bush | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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