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Student wants schools closed until flu vaccine is ready

Justin Kamen, 22, stands on the campus of

Photo credit: Dave Sanders | Justin Kamen, 22, stands on the campus of Columbia University.

Students usually have had no voice in policies governing school closures or vaccine distribution, but a student in Manhattan says he knows how to stop the swine flu pandemic in its tracks: Close all schools until a vaccine is ready in October.

The notion grew out of an undergraduate research project that has since blossomed into a Web site, a social-media campaign, and what at least one flu...

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