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What We've Found: Vaccine for schoolchildren, inadequately tested drugs, water restrictions in Palestine, Senegalese "gift", Scientologists fined for fraud and something fishy at the Sudoku Championship
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What We've Found: Vaccine for schoolchildren, inadequately tested drugs, water restrictions in Palestine, Senegalese "gift", Scientologists fined for fraud and something fishy at the Sudoku Championship
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
H1N1 vaccine was administered to 1,600 students throughout the Philadelphia School District yesterday, part of a city effort to avoid emergency rooms becoming flooded with people demanding the vaccine.
Drug makers have been rushing to market with medicines used to treat heart illness and cancer before adequately testing them first, according to a report out yesterday from Congress.
Israeli authorities and soldiers dangerously restrict access to water in the Palestinian territories, according to a new report from Amnesty International, leaving some Palestinians with only 5 gallons of water per day.
The Senegalese people were outraged to learn that their government gave an official from the International Monetary Fund a gift of $200,000 at his farewell dinner. Prime Minister Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye said it was a traditional African goodbye present.
The Church of Scientology in France was fined $600,000 for fraud after investigators accused the church officials of manipulating members into investing large amounts of money into questionable ventures and using "commercial harassment" to attract new members.
The third-place winner at Saturday's National Sudoku Championship at the Convention Center, the country's largest puzzle competition, may have cheated. Officials say that the suspect completed preliminary puzzles in record time, but appeared to have trouble on the simple opening calculations of the final-round puzzle, and may have used a fake name.
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