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Currently, most anti-HIV drugs target individual proteins, and are given in combination as a cocktail. However, according to D’Souza, HIV is mutating and building up resistance to the cocktail. By studying the RNA-protein complex, which is crucial to the virus’ survival, D’Souza aims to sophisticate the current approach to AIDS treatment...
...films being shown at the series, a short piece called “Death Mills,” was found in a defunct military base outside of Boston. There were no credits on the piece to identify Wilder as its creator. An anti-Nazi propaganda piece made for the U.S. Office of War Information, the short was recently traced to Wilder when an interview was discovered in which he mentioned the film...
...oaken interior of Sanders Theater crackles with intensity as prominent pacifists lecture on the futility of violence in solving the nation’s problems. The event is one in a series of anti-administration rallies and demonstrations that are quickly becoming a weekly ritual at Harvard. But this late ’60s scene is happening almost three decades too early. The date is April 18, 1940. A year later, the Pearl Harbor bombing and the country’s entry into the Second World War would remind the United States and its citizens of the impossibility...
...hard to argue with a bill that aims to reduce suffering; but in this case it's also easy to sense an ulterior motive. The bill's supporters, which include most anti-abortion lawmakers and organizations, can argue that so long as abortion remains legal, the least we can do is make it merciful. But the bill's language makes it clear that in this case mercy is for monsters: it invites women to request pain relief for her baby, so that it will hurt less when, as the law states, "the unborn child's body parts are grasped...
...Still, the notion of a "Shi'ite crescent" emerging in the Middle East may be based more on Sunni fears than Shi'ite ambitions. The anti-Western alliance, which includes Sunni Palestinians, is more political than religious in nature, motivated by antipathy toward Israel and a determination to rid the region of U.S. influence. Hizballah calculates that by toppling the Western-backed government in Beirut, U.S. influence in Lebanon and the wider region will be curbed. The conflict playing out in Lebanon, then, may not simply be based on the country's age-old sectarian tensions, but in a regional...