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...facing health officials is when to institute mass vaccination programs. Vaccines carry risks of complications, leading to agonizing ethical dilemmas. In 1976, Ford offered indemnity to the vaccine manufacturers. But according to reports, President George W. Bush decided in 2002 not to administer a nationwide smallpox vaccination program - despite Vice President Dick Cheney's belief that doing so was a prudent counterterrorism step - because it could have resulted in dozens of deaths (the smallpox vaccine kills between 1 and 2 people per million people inoculated...
...workers are exploiting unofficial benefits, too. At Katarina's cosmetics company, management traditionally tolerated employees pocketing the occasional beauty product. Once the crisis kicked off, people started taking home more - and more expensive - freebies. "It was pretty widespread, from interns all the way to vice presidents," says Katarina, admitting that she stuffed her purse with anti-wrinkle cream in the weeks before her departure...
...brief presentations by Kenneth I. Brewer ’11 and Lindsey R. Brinton ’12, who talked about the history of church and current theological doctrines, followed by questions from the audience. When asked about the issue of polygamy in an interview before the event, LDSSA Vice-President Morgan T. Pope ’11 pointed out that the general public sometimes held an outdated view of Mormon beliefs. “People still associate us with polygamy even though it’s been more than 100 years out of practice,” he said...
...Luis A. Martinez ’12 lives in Matthews Hall. He is the vice president for speakers and political discourse of the Harvard Republican Club...
...determined by economic factors, aid officers also recommend giving the appeal a more personal touch by having the student, rather than the parent, make the first call. "You tend to see [financial-aid officers] doing more because you're trying to help the student," says Chris Gruber, Davidson's vice president for admission and financial aid. "It seems a little more genuine to us than perhaps somebody sitting at their desk and calling the five colleges that a student has been admitted to and trying to jockey for greater dollars...