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The FDA has approved Merck & Co.'s Gardasil, the first vaccine that protects against the cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV). An FDA advisory panel had signed off on the vaccine in May, and the National Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will now decide whether to include the vaccine in routine vaccination schedules. Cervical cancer causes an estimated 290,000 deaths worldwide each year.

DEFINITION: (noun) Excessive devotion to local interests and customs. SYNONYMS: provincialism, localism. USAGE: He believes that Manhattan is the center of the universe, and his sectionalism is so acute that he is reluctant to visit friends in Brooklyn.

Less than 5 weeks after being named president of the Ford Motor Company, Robert McNamara resigned to accept President Kennedy's invitation to serve as Secretary of Defense. In this role, he shifted US military strategy away from heavy reliance on nuclear weaponry and strengthened conventional fighting capacity. He initially supported the escalation of the Vietnam War, but his growing doubts led him to resign from the cabinet. He then became the president of what agency?

The pact ended both NATO intervention and the civil war between the Serbian-dominated Yugoslavian Army and ethnic Albanians who were fighting to create an independent sovereign nation. The war resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands, with more than 800,000 refugees fleeing Kosovo. The peace treaty eventually toppled the regime of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic who would be tried for war crimes for his policy of "ethnic cleansing" in the Balkans.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant and the second-largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter. Saturn has large rings consisting mostly of ice particles and rocky debris. It was named after the Roman god Saturn, and its symbol is a stylized representation of the god's sickle. What famous astronomer first observed Saturn's rings?