In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue... I was surprised to find that Columbus Day is still an official Federal holiday. Christopher Columbus was a much bigger figure in American history when I was in elementary school back in the 1970s, as our history textbooks told his same heroic story for generations. After all he discovered America, didn’t he? - He had three ships and left...
The United States Department of Health and Human services recently released its plan describing how it will distribute a flu vaccine if, or when, a flu pandemic occurs in this country. The plan divides the population into four tiers based on different factors. The first tier individuals will receive the vaccine before anyone else. They are the health care workers, first responders and people who are...