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• Despite Zostavax, Drive Against Shingles Meets Few Goals - NYTimes.com

  Five years have passed since the Food and Drug Administration approved a vaccine against shingles. By now, experts had expected a substantial proportion of people older than 60, the most vulnerable population, to be protected from outbreaks of this nasty viral disease and the persistent, debilitating pain it can leave behind.

  tags: wellness

• Hitler’s Talking Dogs - NYTimes.com

  At this late date, when we believe we know absolutely everything about Adolf Hitler, could it be that he was even crazier than we thought?

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• Google+ Gets a Leg Up on Facebook - NYTimes.com

  Google, the most popular Web site on earth, is worried about the second-most popular site. That, of course, would be Facebook.
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  Why else would Google keep trying, over and over again, to create a social network of the same type? Orkut, Jaiku, Wave, Buzz — Google has lobbed forth one fizzled flop after another.
  
  And now there’s Google+. It’s the latest Google “we wanna be Facebook” project. The difference is, this one’s got a real shot.

  tags: technology

• The Start-Up of You - NYTimes.com

  The rise in the unemployment rate last month to 9.2 percent has Democrats and Republicans reliably falling back on their respective cure-alls. It is evidence for liberals that we need more stimulus and for conservatives that we need more tax cuts to increase demand. I am sure there is truth in both, but I do not believe they are the whole story. I think something else, something new — something that will require our kids not so much to find their next job as to invent their next job — is also influencing today’s job market more than people realize.

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• Liao Yiwu, Dissident Chinese Writer, ‘Ecstatic’ After Fleeing to Germany - NYTimes.com

  BEIJING — After being denied an exit visa 17 times, yanked off planes and trains by the police and threatened with yet more prison time, one of China’s most persecuted writers, Liao Yiwu, slipped across the border into Vietnam last week and then made his way, via Poland, to Germany, where he promptly declared himself an exile.
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  Liao Yiwu, one of the most persecuted writers in China, fled into self exile in Germany this week. While still in China, his writings on the plight of the country's downtrodden had earned him travel restrictions and threats from the police.
  “I’m ecstatic, I’m finally free,” he said in a telephone interview from Berlin on Monday morning before plunging into a day of interviews and photo shoots. “I feel like I’m walking through a dream.”

  tags: culture

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