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The ACIP, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel newly empowered by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is just getting started.

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The foolproof way to...WRITE A QUERY LETTERand LAND YOUR DREAM AGENTYou want to get published. You want to see your book in bookstores. You want to hit a bestseller list.For that you need an agent, an...

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You can come in now , they say, holding open the door between the waiting room and the inner sanctum of the ER, and I stand, smoothing my wispy summer dress and unsticking my bare legs from the vinyl ...

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