Flu Virus resistance

This Season's Flu Virus Is Resistant to 2 Standard Drugs
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, The New York Times, January 15, 2006


WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 - Doctors should stop prescribing two standard antiviral drugs to treat or prevent this season's influenza because the predominant strain has quickly become resistant to them, federal health officials said Saturday.

The standard drugs are amantadine and rimantadine.
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Living Wage

What Is a Living Wage?
By JON GERTNER, The New York Times, January 15, 2006


If It Happened in Baltimore, Maybe It Can Happen Anywhere

For a few weeks in the summer of 1995, Jen Kern spent her days at a table in the Library of Congress in Washington, poring over the fine print of state constitutions from around the country. This was, at the time, a somewhat-eccentric strategy to fight poverty in America. Kern was not a high-powered lawyer or politician; she was 25 and held a low-paying, policy-related job at Acorn, the national community organization. Yet to understand why living-wage campaigns matter - where they began, what they mean, and why they inspire such passion and hope - it helps to consider what Kern was doing years ago in the library, reading obscure legislation from states like Missouri and New Mexico.
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Movies - 2006

January

1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory *
   
2. Me, You and Everybody We Know ****
   
3. King Kong *
   
4. The Island *
   
5. Syriana ****
   
6. The Maltese Falcon ****
   
7. Grizzly Man ****
   
8. 40 year old Virgin **
   
9. Munich ****
   
   February:
   
10. Alexander *
    
11. Capote ****
    
12. Casablanca ****
    
13. Fantastic 4 *
    
14. Good Night, and Good Luck. ****
    
15. Mr. & Mrs. Smith **
    
16. The Constant Gardener ****
    
    March:
    
17. Brothers Grimm **
    
18. High Tension ****
    
19. Wedding Crashers **
    
20. Inherit the Wind ****
    
21. Junebug ****
    
    April:
    
22. V for Vendetta ***
    
23. American Psycho ****
    
24. Dukes of Hazzard *
    
25. Murderball ****
    
26. Howl's Moving Castle **
    
27. Catch-22 ****
    
    May:
    
28. The Cave *
    
29. Nine Lives ****
    
30. The Shawshank Redemption ****
    
31. Jarhead **
    
32. House of Wax *
    
33. Broken Flowers ****
    
34. Cabin Fever **
    
35. Ed Wood **
    
36. The Squid and the Whale **
    
    June:
    
37. Four Brothers **
    
38. Transporter 2 **
    
39. The Family Stone **
    
40. Into the Blue **
    
    July:
    
41. Aeon Flux **
    
42. An Inconvenient Truth ***
    
43. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ****
    
44. Transamerica ****
    
45. The Wild Bunch ***
    
46. Doom **
    
47. Wine for the Confused **
    
48. Clerks 2 ***
    
49. Underworld: Evolution **
    
    August:
    
50. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe *
    
51. Breakfast on Pluto **
    
52. Little Miss Sunshine ****
    
    September:
    
53. A New World *
    
54. Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children **
    
55. Bridge on the River Kwai ****
    
    October:
    
56. Our Man in Havana ****
    
57. Talladega Nights **
    
58. The Departed ****
    
59. The Third Man ***
    
60. Walk the Line **
    
    November:
    
61. The Last Picture Show ****
    
62. Desk Set ****
    
    December:
    
63. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang ****
    
64. The Matador ***
    
65. Casino Royale ****