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So while the U.S. government is searching all over the world for more vaccine, it is unclear how helpful the extra doses will be if they don't arrive until next year.

The extra doses were ordered after British regulators closed a plant making half of the flu vaccine the United States requested for this season.

The vaccine shortage has had wide-ranging effects, from Canada to Capitol Hill to the campaign trail.

Clinics and pharmacies across the border are offering to inoculate U.S. residents, Margaret Holmen and others from the Powers Lake Senior Citizens Center in Bismarck, N.D., have been talking about going to Canada for their shots.

"Everybody here is thinking about it," said Holmen, the senior center's manager. "We hear on the news that we should be patient, but we don't know what to do."

Word of Canada's vaccine availability is spreading quickly. Eighty Americans showed up for flu shots Tuesday at Henders Drug in Estevan — located about 9 miles north of the North Dakota border — although the store's newspaper advertisement hadn't even run yet.

"I suspect there will be a lot more," said Larry Preddy, pharmacist and co-owner of the store. He charges Americans the same price as Canadians — $15 Canadian or about $12.

Urgent Care Niagara's Fort Erie clinic, just across the border from Buffalo, said it would vaccinate 100 Americans a day, for around $40 each, squeezing them in among Canadian patients who got first priority.

Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports that despite the government's request that young, healthy people forego the shot this year, flu vaccine is readily available on Capitol Hill and the physician there is advising all lawmakers to get it. Already, 2,000 shots have been dispensed there, down from 9,000 a year ago.

In the Sunshine state, a vaccination campaign by Get Healthy Florida was put on hold on the order of the Food and Drug Administration after it was discovered that the vaccine was coming from a foreign producer, not the domestic one that was expected.

On the campaign trail, Sen. John Kerry, President Bush's Democratic challenger, has said the administration failed to heed warnings about a potential shortage.

"If you can't get flu vaccines to Americans, how are you going to protect them against bioterrorism? If you can't get flu vaccines to Americans, what kind of health care program are you running?" Kerry said.

In Florida, Mr. Bush sought to ease Americans' concerns. "I want to assure them that our government is doing everything possible to help older Americans and children get their shots despite the major manufacturing defect that caused this problem," he said.

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That left the United States with about 55 million doses from its second manufacturer, Aventis Pasteur. At a news conference Tuesday, Aventis Pasteur announced it could produce another 2.6 million doses. The extra vaccine won't be ready for distribution until January.

"We're waging a comprehensive and aggressive response," Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson told a news conference. "We have good reason to be optimistic in our ability to deal with the flu season and protect the most vulnerable from its harsh effects."

He said there was enough antiviral medicine available to treat 40 million people, shortening illness in people sick with the flu and preventing illness in healthy people.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said Wednesday he believes the additional shots will arrive in time to help.

The flu season likely will "peak at the end of the December, the beginning of January, but it goes well through February and sometimes into March," he said on the CBS News Early Show.

"So, any amount of doses that one can get, even as late as January, clearly will be very helpful, particularly if we have a very active flu year," Fauci said.

Between vaccines and antiviral drugs, enough medicine will be available to treat 100 million people this flu season, Thompson said. Federal authorities have asked that healthy adults refrain from getting vaccinated to leave enough for those at greatest risk: the very young, the very old and people with chronic illnesses.

Meanwhile, officials are looking "throughout the world" for additional vaccine, said Lester Crawford, Food and Drug Administration acting commissioner.

Crawford said the FDA would give expedited review to flu vaccine produced by ID Biomedical of Canada. The expedited review — "weeks, rather than months" — means the 1.5 million Canadian flu shots could reach Americans this season, he said.

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In an Oct. 20 operation in Colorado, Smitty gave a kidney to a man who had needed a transplant since 1999 due to kidney disease.

The recipient, Bob Hickey, met Smitty through MatchingDonors.com, a Web site created to match donors and recipients for a fee. Hickey paid the Web site $295 a month for three months to post his plea.

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Smitty, of Chattanooga, said Hickey has written him checks of $950, $700 and $1,400 to help cover expenses and to compensate for time he has missed at work. Smitty said he was unsure how much additional compensation he would get.

"There is no contract," he said. Smitty said that in response to the many claims he has been paid for the kidney, "If I can reduce that number by taking a lie-detector test, I will."

Monique Kelso, spokeswoman in the FBI's Denver office, said the agency has not investigated the kidney transplant for any possible federal law violations.

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"I've had cuffs put on me before and I may have them put on me again," he said. "I think it'll make them look bad to put a man who just donated a kidney in jail.

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The flu season typically peaks in January or later. It takes two weeks for people to develop immunity after being vaccinated, which should be done in October or November, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

So while the U.S. government is searching all over the world for more vaccine, it is unclear how helpful the extra doses will be if they don't arrive until next year.

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The vaccine shortage has had wide-ranging effects, from Canada to Capitol Hill to the campaign trail.

Clinics and pharmacies across the border are offering to inoculate U.S. residents, Margaret Holmen and others from the Powers Lake Senior Citizens Center in Bismarck, N.D., have been talking about going to Canada for their shots.

"Everybody here is thinking about it," said Holmen, the senior center's manager. "We hear on the news that we should be patient, but we don't know what to do."

Word of Canada's vaccine availability is spreading quickly. Eighty Americans showed up for flu shots Tuesday at Henders Drug in Estevan — located about 9 miles north of the North Dakota border — although the store's newspaper advertisement hadn't even run yet.

"I suspect there will be a lot more," said Larry Preddy, pharmacist and co-owner of the store. He charges Americans the same price as Canadians — $15 Canadian or about $12.

Urgent Care Niagara's Fort Erie clinic, just across the border from Buffalo, said it would vaccinate 100 Americans a day, for around $40 each, squeezing them in among Canadian patients who got first priority.

Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports that despite the government's request that young, healthy people forego the shot this year, flu vaccine is readily available on Capitol Hill and the physician there is advising all lawmakers to get it. Already, 2,000 shots have been dispensed there, down from 9,000 a year ago.

In the Sunshine state, a vaccination campaign by Get Healthy Florida was put on hold on the order of the Food and Drug Administration after it was discovered that the vaccine was coming from a foreign producer, not the domestic one that was expected.

On the campaign trail, Sen. John Kerry, President Bush's Democratic challenger, has said the administration failed to heed warnings about a potential shortage.

"If you can't get flu vaccines to Americans, how are you going to protect them against bioterrorism? If you can't get flu vaccines to Americans, what kind of health care program are you running?" Kerry said.

In Florida, Mr. Bush sought to ease Americans' concerns. "I want to assure them that our government is doing everything possible to help older Americans and children get their shots despite the major manufacturing defect that caused this problem," he said.

Chiron Corp. was expected to provide the United States with 46 million to 48 million doses of flu vaccine, nearly half the supply the government anticipated needing. But British regulators closed Chiron's Liverpool facility because of contamination.

That left the United States with about 55 million doses from its second manufacturer, Aventis Pasteur. At a news conference Tuesday, Aventis Pasteur announced it could produce another 2.6 million doses. The extra vaccine won't be ready for distribution until January.

"We're waging a comprehensive and aggressive response," Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson told a news conference. "We have good reason to be optimistic in our ability to deal with the flu season and protect the most vulnerable from its harsh effects."

He said there was enough antiviral medicine available to treat 40 million people, shortening illness in people sick with the flu and preventing illness in healthy people.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said Wednesday he believes the additional shots will arrive in time to help.

The flu season likely will "peak at the end of the December, the beginning of January, but it goes well through February and sometimes into March," he said on the CBS News Early Show.

"So, any amount of doses that one can get, even as late as January, clearly will be very helpful, particularly if we have a very active flu year," Fauci said.

Between vaccines and antiviral drugs, enough medicine will be available to treat 100 million people this flu season, Thompson said. Federal authorities have asked that healthy adults refrain from getting vaccinated to leave enough for those at greatest risk: the very young, the very old and people with chronic illnesses.

Meanwhile, officials are looking "throughout the world" for additional vaccine, said Lester Crawford, Food and Drug Administration acting commissioner.

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Yet the pharmaceutical industry has failed women miserably — there isn't a single sexual dysfunction drug on the market that can help them. Pfizer Inc. last year abandoned an eight-year Viagra study involving 3,000 women, conceding that its famous blue pill only works for men.

"I hate to say it, but women are much more complex than men," said Beverly Whipple, the sex researcher who co-wrote "The G-Spot."

Viagra and its two competitors are rather blunt instruments — they work simply, by increasing blood flow down below. Women who take the drugs tend to experience the same physical effect, but this alone rarely satisfies them.

"You are not going to make a product by looking at what works in men and apply it to women," said Amy Allina, program director at the National Women's Health Network in Washington D.C. "That does reflect, in part, a lack of knowledge of what is underlying women's sexual problems."

The latest research — being done by academics, rather than commercial drug companies — suggests a neurological solution is needed. Because when it comes to achieving orgasms, women are more affected by mood, self-esteem and other issues of the psyche than men.

While Pfizer and other pharmaceutical titans have abandoned the pursuit of a Viagra for females as too complicated, a growing number of university researchers are reporting progress with the help of brain scanners and other technology.

Yes, they're watching women's brains while they have orgasms. And they're coming to some interesting conclusions.

For example, by studying paralyzed women who can still experience orgasm, they discovered that for women, the vagus nerve appears to be quite important, and therefore may be a promising target for drugs. This nerve — which is outside the spinal cord — carries information to areas of the brain that control mood.

"We basically found the areas of the brains that are activated in orgasm in women," said Barry Komisaruk, who worked with Whipple on this research, which is being funded by the federal government and the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.

Brain scans measure the blood flow of research volunteers, whose heads are strapped tightly down inside the noisy machines. When brain cells start firing in a part of the brain that governs a particular emotion or activity, they need more oxygen, which is carried by the blood. During a brain scan, active regions of the brain can be seen lighting up on a computer monitor.

The scans reveal something else about women — during orgasms, the pain centers in their brains shut down, and pleasure centers — the same ones that become active when people ingest cocaine — light up.

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That's why Komisaruk is currently studying the brains of women who can self-stimulate purely through thought — an apparently rare attribute that eliminates the noise — as he seeks to find out exactly what makes women tick during sex.

"The strange thing is that everyone knows that it all happens between the ears and not between the legs," said Gert Holstege, a leading sexual researcher at Groningen University in The Netherlands.

In June, Holstege published one of the first studies that mapped brain activity during orgasm for men and women, who were stimulated by their partners.

Among other results, Holstege found that the part of the brain thought to control fear and anxiety — the amygdala — deactivated during orgasm for both women and men.

He acknowledged that his data for men is a little suspect — however — because they don't orgasm long enough to take a proper brain scan.

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Sex research using brain scans is only just getting started, and scientists warn that any potential new drugs — or even better diagnoses of sexual dysfunction — are years away.

Still, many researchers — including those at the Kinsey Institute for Research, Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University — see brain scans as an important tool.

"We tried to come to conclusions about the brain through all kinds of detours," said Erick Janssen, a Kinsey researcher. "This is a much more direct way to do it."

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Normally, the Navy hospital at Camp Lejeune - one of the state's two largest installations - would be getting 50,000 to 60,000 doses of flu vaccine for more than 40,000 active duty Marines, dependents and retirees.

"There are none aboard the base at this time," said George Reynolds, director of community health at Lejeune's hospital, which also covers needs at the New River air station. "We have not received the first dose."

Deploying troops are exceptions to the federal rules that suggest only at-risk groups such as young children, the elderly and the chronically ill should receive the vaccine.

Marines who get deployment orders as well as special operations soldiers and aviators also classified as highly deployable - meaning they might be called to leave the country at any time - will get vaccinated only once the Department of Defense decides how to dole out the military's vaccine supply.

"If they get exposed to an area where the flu is epidemic, there is a readiness problem," Reynolds said.

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"We don't normally find high-risk people on active duty," Reynolds said. "They're all healthy individuals."

Vaccine supplies have been short since British regulators shut down shipments from Chiron Corp., which had made millions of flu shots in a British factory. That has cut the U.S. supply of vaccine almost in half.

North Carolina's other large military installation - Fort Bragg - also is grappling with how to handle a limited supply of vaccine. Army hospital spokeswoman Shannon Lynch said soldiers deploying with the 18th Airborne Corps will receive the vaccine, but those who stay behind will not.

High-risk dependents will be vaccinated as shots become available.

"Then it's pretty much take care of yourself, for the rest of us," Lynch said. "If you're sick, don't go to work. If you sneeze, cover your mouth. Wash your hands frequently. If you use someone else's telephone, wipe it down."

Officials reported 76 cases of flu at Bragg during last winter's flu season.

At the 82nd Airborne Division, whose 15,000 paratroopers make up one of Bragg's major units, spokeswoman Maj. Amy Hannah said officials plan to have enough vaccine on hand for 3,000 to 5,000 paratroopers, should deployment orders come during flu season.

"The majority of the division is between 18 and 40 and in the low-risk category," Hannah said, adding there may be a few paratroopers with a chronic disease or a few who are pregnant.

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(CBS News) Vampire Weekend is the indie band with a catchy name that's on top of the charts. Anthony Mason takes note:

Their name sounds like a Goth band, but Vampire Weekend has a history of not being what they seem -- four Ivy League-educated musicians who write brainy songs that are also infectious.

This week they have the number one album in the country.

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"So how would you judge your performance that night?" Mason asked.

"We were not bad," said Koenig.

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So they started playing regular gigs on campus - like at the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.

"It was fun to play these shows where there was really no stage," said Batmanglij. "So it's just like, people and the band."

The band took its name from a high school film Koenig had made.

"When did you decide that the name would stick?" Mason asked.

"We're still talking about it," Koenig laughed.

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But Vampire Weekend proved a useful name in Google searches, when not much else pops up: "It was only people who had as their favorite movies back-to-back 'Interview With a Vampire' and 'Weekend at Bernie's,'" said Baio.

Their sound developed early: a cross-cultural mosaic of rock, African guitar pop and classical music with a provocative preppy veneer.

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"We were beneficiaries -- and partially the victims -- of the kind of explosion of Internet music culture," said Koenig.

Victims, because some critics didn't get the "preppy" joke. One accused the band of having the "putresecent stench of old money."