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...hours of your time, spread over two evenings in the theater. To see what is essentially a subtitled Italian television mini-series without recognizable stars, special effects, or for that matter, hot sex or graphic violence. To say that The Best of Youth demands an unusual commitment from us understates the case...
...have to spread the word all over America that the republicans are overreaching and eliminating checks and balances. I welcome them,” Schumer said...
...week, nonstop filibuster on April 26, reading everything from political speeches and poems to phone books and the digits of Pi. They stood in front of the Frist Campus Center, so named after the Senator's family pledged $25 million to his alma mater. As word of the effort spread, hundreds of students joined in-despite looming exams-and a number of parallel protests started up at other schools, including Harvard, Howard, the University of California at Berkeley, and Yale...
...spread be reversed? For now, the numbers remain relatively tiny. As of last week, the global new-case count for 2005 was still only 124. Even combined with last year's Nigerian totals, that's microscopic, epidemiologically speaking, in a world in which more than 1 million people die each year of malaria and 3 million die of AIDS. But big contagions start small. What's more, only 1 in 200 cases of polio actually causes paralysis, with the rest simply leading to fever, flu-like symptoms or no apparent illness at all. That means that for every child with...
...least for a while. WHO and other groups still hope to eradicate the disease this year in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, where polio was endemic before the current outbreaks and good vaccination campaigns were in place. The other affected countries will take longer, giving the virus more time to spread elsewhere--including...