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...move, which now appears likely, will be a decision by Washington to undertake potentially one of the largest and fastest public vaccination campaigns in U.S. history. Sometime in October and November, federal officials will probably recommend inoculating 160 million Americans who are most at risk of infection. Despite the fact that the shots will be free, the campaign will not be easy: last year only 40% of the U.S. population took the time to get a regular flu shot. And the H1N1 vaccine is going to require some commitment. Officials say health workers will need to administer at least...
...Quotes By: On the dangers of operating in Iraq: "Obviously, you can see the business risk that goes with it - being sued, being maligned in the press, a very significant rush to judgment. It can jeopardize all the rest of the work that we've done in the rest of the world without any controversy." - October 2007, in congressional testimony...
...postwar generation was the first to refuse to grow up, but Gen-X and the rest have followed in their footsteps. And the selfish, heedless, if-it-feels-god-do-it approach enshrined by young boomers subsequently enabled the risk-taking, party-hearty paradigm that has governed so much of American life, economically and otherwise, for the last quarter century. Now in the twilight of their hegemony, with this crisis and the necessary reshaping of America, the boomers have their last best shot at helping to straighten out the mess they helped make. In their empty-nested years, for instance...
...thousands that first marched to cry fraud in the days immediately after June 12, the very fact that protesters are still taking to the streets - as hundreds did on Aug. 3, while Khamenei was formally confirming Ahmadinejad - is, in itself, remarkable. After all, to protest now is to risk a cracked head, or far worse; for all the mixed signals from Iran's top echelons of power, the security forces have exhibited few qualms about doing whatever it takes to quiet the streets, including the imprisoning of an estimated 2,000 opposition supporters. And all those taking to the streets...
...system works, there's no need for a hybrid," says Mendelson, author of "Closing Guantánamo," a report by the CSIS working group on Gitmo and U.S. detention policies. By trying to create a new facility, the Obama Administration would risk legal challenges and "it would look to others that instead of closing Gitmo, we're just moving...