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...states in smaller bite-sizes, two or three in a day." Obama could savor his big win in his home state of Illinois - since it was once Clinton's home state as well - as well as in Connecticut, Delaware and Utah. Once again, younger and more affluent voters provided the core of his support, along with African Americans, whom he won by an 8-1 margin. He won 70% of the half of Democrats who told pollsters they were looking for change; a quarter of respondents said they favored experience, and nearly all broke for Clinton...
...mice, colleagues received the news with great enthusiasm - and no small amount of concern. Positive study results like these offer hope that ARVs may someday help stem the rate of new infections worldwide, but public-health experts in the U.S. worry that they may also prompt people in affluent at-risk communities to leapfrog the emerging science and self-medicate. "It's inevitable," says Dr. Warner Greene, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. "Nobody wants to wait...
...euphoria that followed the announcement gave way to a widespread feeling of disappointment: On the designated night, there was certainly a line of people snaking around the block, waiting to get into the Lotus Lounge in the city's affluent Buckhead neighborhood. But "it was about 80% black," recalls Ski. And, as Weiss put it on air, "My white people didn't show...
...this love affair between the global rich and London isn't just about saving a few thousand bucks - after all, the weather's better in Monaco. When Scorpio Partnership, a wealth management-strategy think tank, asked affluent clients why they chose London over, say, New York City, Paris or Munich, the good reputation of Britain's schools, the country's political stability, the growing pool of talent in the financial-services sector and historical ties to Britain were frequently offered reasons. "Another thing is the legitimacy, particularly for foreigners coming from emerging markets like Russia," says managing partner Sebastian Dovey...
Dora is an affluent, upper-middle class neighborhood, home to many former Iraqi army generals and intelligence officers, almost completely Sunni and Baathist. It was just the kind of place hit hard by the 2003 orders to disband the Iraqi army and purge the government of ranking Baath party members...