Posted on 12 November 2009. Tags: 1976, Alexandria, American Association of Neurology, Barbara Lowe Fisher, Calvin McFarland, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deputy director for immunization safety, Dr. Claudia J. Vellozzi, Food and Drug Administration, government, Guillain-Barre syndrome, H1N1 vaccine, health officials, Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children, Jordan McFarland, muscle spasms, National Vaccine Information Center, physical therapy, severe headaches, swine flu shot, Tony Raker, Vienna, virginia
A 14-year-old Virginia boy is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu.
Jordan McFarland, a high school athlete from Alexandria, Va., left Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children Tuesday night in a wheelchair nearly a week after developing severe headaches, muscle spasms and weakness in his legs following a swine flu shot. He will likely need the assistance of a walker for four to six weeks, plus extensive physical therapy.
“The doctor said I’ll recover fully, but it’s going to take some time,” the teenager said. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 November 2009. Tags: Abu Omar, Alexandria, Americans, Armando Spataro, arrest warrant, C.I.A., cleric, diplomatic immunity, Egypt, European Court of Human Rights, fugitives, Germany, Il Giornale, intelligence agents, interrogation techniques, Italians, italy, Italy's Constitutional Court, Jeffrey Castelli, Judge Oscar Magi, Luca Bauccio, Milan, mosque, Muslim, Nicolo Pollari, Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, Paul Gimigliano, Prime Minister Silvia Berlusconi, rendition, Robert Seldon Lady, rome, Sabrina De Sousa, state secrecy, terrorism, torture, United States, United States Embassy in Rome
MILAN — In a landmark ruling on Wednesday, an Italian judge convicted a C.I.A. station chief and 22 other Americans accused of being C.I.A. agents of kidnapping in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 September 2009. Tags: Alexandria, Amazon.com, Angus & Robertson Bookstore, Ann Arbor, australia, Bibliotheca Alexandria, Blackwell Bookshop, books, bookstores, Canada, Chris Anderson, copyright, digital copies, documents, Edmonton, Egypt, Espresso Book Machine, Google, Google Book Search, libraries, london, Manchester, melbourne, Michigan, Northshire Bookstore, On Demand Books, paper copies, public domain, revolution, Shapiro Library Building, texts, universities, University of Alberta, University of Michigan, Vermont, Wired
- Story Highlights
- Google Book Search is letting readers turn digitized texts back into paper copies
- Google scans millions of books and turns them into searchable documents
- Books can be printed on demand by a special machine in about 4 minutes
- The machine is only in a few dozen bookstores so far Read the full story
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Posted on 15 September 2009. Tags: Alexandria, Business, campus, Chief Executive, college, contingency plans, contracting firm, David Hudgins, Department of Homeland Security, Don Owen, employees, enterprises, federal officials, flu, founder, Gelberg Signs, guidelines, H1N1, Homeland Security Secretary, Hudgins Law Firm, information technology services, Infused Solutions, Janet Napolitano, litigation cases, Luc Brami, Marlon B. Johnson, Molly Borgan, National Small Business Association, outbreak, P&P Contractors, precautions, President, private sector, schools, spokeswoman, Sterling, swine, Swine Flu, United States, virus, workforce
The Department of Homeland Security urged small businesses Monday to devise contingency plans allowing them to operate in the event a number of their employees become infected with the H1N1 virus. With half of the nation’s private-sector employees working at small businesses, federal officials said they want the enterprises to take precautions to prevent a disruption to the economy as the virus, also known as swine flu, wends its way across the United States. Read the full story
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