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Flu shot clinics: In time for the season, flu shots -- recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and the American College Health Association -- are now available from Gannett Health Services. The cost of the influenza vaccine per person is $10. Flu shots and other vaccinations are available at Gannett by appointment, Monday through Friday (call 255-5155), and are available at vaccine clinics, first come, first served. Be prepared to pay with exact change, check or by bursar account. This week's vaccine clinic schedule is listed in the Chronicle calendar under the Miscellany heading. The American College Health Association also recommends that college students consider vaccination to prevent meningococcal disease ($68) and hepatitis B ($37-$60 per shot; three-shot series). These vaccines are available at Gannett and at the vaccination clinics. For more information about recommended vaccinations, check the web site at: http://www.uhs.cornell.edu/othervaccs.html or for more information, contact Gannett at 255-5155.

Hits keep coming: Cornell is among the top rank of universities in many areas, including among web surfers. According to Hotbot, one of the most-used web search engines, Cornell is the fourth most searched-for university among Hotbot users. The Hotbot Top 10: 1) Stanford; 2) Harvard; 3) Princeton; 4) Cornell; 5) Yale; 6) USC; 7) Dartmouth; 8) UCLA; 9) University of California at Santa Barbara; 10) Columbia.

Also, Cornell Library's Beautiful Birds web site http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ornithology was selected recently as a USA Today "Hot Site." And the July Science magazine included a note about the Beautiful Birds site in its Netwatch column, citing it for its "cool images."