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August 7th, 2009
01:17 PM ET

Back-to-school swine flu update

CDC officials have issued new recommendations for how schools should handle H1N1, and unlike last spring, they aren’t recommending schools close down when they have a large number of students with swine flu. CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen reports on the latest guidelines and has updates about the swine flu vaccine to be released this fall.


Filed under: Elizabeth Cohen
August 7th, 2009
07:32 AM ET

Has the economy turned you into a weekend yard sale shopper?

The World’s Longest Yard Sale takes place this weekend and is in its 22nd year. The sale starts in Unity, Ohio, runs through Kentucky and Tennessee and south to Gadsden, Alabama. Every item under the sun is available for sale along a 654-mile stretch of the highway 127 corridor.

It’s considered a Tour de France for “junktiquers” and it’s not for the faint of heart. Buyers and sellers alike are serious about their yard sale! But is a yard sale something you have turned to as a way to save during tough economic times? What have you bought? What have you sold?tough economic times? What have you bought? What have you sold?


Filed under: Anchors • Heidi Collins