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[9 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]

Rumors fuel fears, and fears roll over our nation’s news networks until one is left more confused than they started and has to discern the facts from the falsities on their own. This is much the case with the H1N1 vaccine that is being used nation wide to prevent the sickness.
Despite the confusion, hundreds of parents took their children to the West Campus on Nov. 24 to get them vaccinated.
The vaccine comes as an injection or a nasal spray and the guidelines for who gets which depend mostly on …

Opinion »

[17 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Wal-Mart employees coming in sick?

Have you ever imagined how many germs are at your local supermarket? Thousands of people walk through the store everyday, many of them sick. Yet we still lug around the carts not cleaning them off first, and touch many things that strangers have already touched and are crawling with germs. Whether we like to admit it or not, a store is a very unhealthy place to be, and we do not do anything to prevent the spread of germs.
Some recent news that has come to my attention is that workers …