The Guardian reports that a £20m vaccination campaign is launched today to catch school-age children in England who have not been immunised against measles because of misplaced fears of the MMR jab and who are now at risk of the disease.
The problem is that ministers love to launch initiatives to catch the headlines.
Determination, drive, tenacity or persistence is the most important variable, demonstrated by Mark through his: relentless coding early on to launch Facebook to catch the Winklevoss brothers off guard; adding colleges; attacking MySpace; defending against the subsequent lawsuit from the twins; repeated encroaching into people's privacy (which remains one of Mark's Achilles heels).
Coming from AMC, the Don Draper channel, Halt and Catch Fire was launched to an unreasonable assumption that the 80s-set tech drama would be Mad Men with computers.
Many countries have made the shot part of their routine vaccination schedules for children, while massive catch-up campaigns were launched to protect entire populations that never received the vaccine before.
A decade ago, Japan dominated the world of lithium-ion batteries — the powerful, lightweight cells that hold promise for an electric-car future — but in 1998 the Chinese government launched a push to catch up.
Last month Chinese security agents launched a manhunt to catch those behind the anonymous letter – signed by "loyal Communist party members" – detaining more than two dozen people suspected of involvement in its publication.
Tokyo-based robot maker Tmsuk and security firm Alacom [JP] jointly developed the "T-34," a compact patrol and security robot that can launch a net to catch intruders.
"Because there's 300 new shows launching, something has to catch on," Gold says.
In addition to the latest developments, we can discuss my story in the magazine this week, "Green Giant," which describes the 863 Program, the Chinese government project named for an obscure moment in March 1986 when China launched a technological push to catch up to the rest of the world.
