Life changes and old order changes yielding place to new. Well, this is not all since along with the passing of years standpoints do change. These wise statements are best fitted for Vietnam that fought from 1959 to 30 April 1975 against USA-backed South Vietnam with an indomitable spirit. However, this is a different world where development and other core issues rule the show and all these have made the arch-enemies of yesteryears to enter a common front for the betterment.
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Montana State University, known for educational excellence and generating students of high caliber, has accomplished another record. Janice Lucon, 25, a graduate student of the university has bagged a $90,000 fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Reason? Her research has the potency to make a difference in how light is harvested for alternative energy applications. Janice, hence, will receive an NSF annual stipend for three years to fund her research at the same university.
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India, the land of ancient civilization and virtues, also known as one the most decent parts of the world, is gradually entering into the age of Internet. If you are an Indian, you can surely frown at this since Internet facilities have already become common in urban India. However, in spite of this, the consciousness of online facilities in the greater part of India is strikingly absent (owing to existent and mounting fiscal disparities) and the education system, more or less, speaks of the same saga.
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Not only the affected countries but the swine fu has almost taken the World Health Organization (WHO) by storm also and the declining scenario, hence, has made WHO come out with a significant decision. The widely acclaimed United Nations agency responsible to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services would rewrite its rules for alerting the world to new diseases. What does this indicate? According to health experts, the swine flu which is tormenting the whole world will most likely never be declared a full-fledged pandemic.
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The US federal government is gearing up to cope with the exigency owing to the outbreak of swine flu and has asked, as a result, three drug companies to make an adequate amount of swine flu vaccine to inoculate no less than 20 million people in crucial positions in health care, national security and emergency services. The instruction came to the fore on account of the arduous effort of health officials under the auspices of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and is a part of a government’s $1 billion investment in immediate production and testing of vaccine against the newly emerged strain of the H1N1 flu virus. It is likely that more orders for potentially hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine will be coming soon.
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