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There's no doubt Africans have borne the brunt of the AIDS epidemic. Now researchers in London and Texas say it may have something to do with a single gene variant that could account for 11%, or about 2.5 million, of Africa's HIV cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetic Variant Raises HIV Risk | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...that as many as a third of the detainees in Guantánamo may have had no connection to terrorism, still proceeded with medieval treatment that the Red Cross warned was "categorically" torture. Mayer's work (nearly 400 pages of sometimes graphic detail) may defeat the casual reader. But her account of secret prisons, black-hooded renditions in the middle of the night and unexplained detainee deaths is necessary reading for those who would understand how the Bush Administration came to turn away from the light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...Amazon exec told me last week that Kindle-ized books now account for 12% of all books sold in digital and print versions on the mega-site. That's up 100% in two months. The company won't say how many electronic readers have been sold, so it's hard to tell how many people out there have learned to live with the device's imperfections. I did so first by eschewing sleep mode in favor of switching it off because booting the device only takes a few seconds anyway. Then I turned off the wireless connection, powering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warming to the Kindle | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...security scare caused by Pak's forgery highlighted a significant vulnerability to student and faculty members' Crimson Cash accounts, which are directly linked to HUID numbers and are considered financial account numbers by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...

Author: By Abby D. Phillip, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Security Breach, Harvard Unveils New IDs | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...their own bit of skulduggery: they bought records stolen by a former employee of the Liechtenstein bank LGT Group, owned by that Alpine nation's royal family. Other tax authorities piled on, including the IRS. In February, the IRS said it was investigating more than 100 Americans with bank accounts in Liechtenstein, a 15-mile-long country sandwiched between Switzerland and Austria, where financial services account for 30% of the economy, thanks to some of the world's tightest bank-secrecy laws. "It certainly has gotten a lot of people energized," says Michael McIntyre, a professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking Down on Tax Evaders | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

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