British Airways announced earlier this week that it would give all staff the option of taking one month of unpaid leave.
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Red rocks and snow at Bryce Canyon
As December storms paint Bryce Canyon National Park with fresh snow, you won’t find a more beautiful winter landscape anywhere in the world. The university’s Center for Vaccine Development has received more than 500 responses from potential volunteers since Wednesday, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced human trials for a swine flu vaccine would begin in early August.
Tooth helps restore desperate woman’s sight
Nine years of blindness almost drove Sharron “Kay” Thornton to suicide. In the end, it was one of her teeth and a procedure surgeons said was never before done in the United States that restored her sight.
Inside China’s H1N1 vaccine laboratories
Every day, tens of thousands of fertilized hen eggs are delivered to Sinovac laboratories in Beijing.
Study: Single dose of H1N1 flu vaccine may suffice for adults
A single low dose of H1N1 vaccine may be enough to protect adults from the flu virus that has been spreading around the world, new data shows. Researchers in Australia said they tested the H1N1 vaccine in 240 people ages 18 to 64
Town hall anger echoed in Congress
Shouting from the audience. Holding up signs blasting the health care reform bill before Congress.
Baby’s protruding heart tucked inside body
Indian government doctors Thursday eased the protruding heart of a 10-day-old baby boy back into his body in what they called a critical but successful surgery. A.K.
Israel weighs Iranian threat
Israel makes no secret that it sees Iran is its biggest threat but the scale of the threat is less clear cut.
Sailing the Northwest Passage: Dutch Harbor and the Bering Sea
In Dutch Harbor the smell of fish wafting from the docks and the canneries is the smell of money. And lately, the town has smelled a lot less fishy. Over fishing, new quota systems and changes in expected weather patterns have all played a role in changing the face of this once swashbuckling Alaskan town, fishermen say
The Great California Fiscal Earthquake
As 2009 settles in, California isn’t quite the Golden State anymore. School districts are expected to lose billions of dollars in financing for improvements and development, and health-care services for the elderly, infirm and poor will most likely deteriorate. State employees are facing payroll cuts, unpaid leaves and a hiring freeze.