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...turn it on is ask your weight, which is a little confrontational. It then asks your weight every time you use it, as if to say, "Jeez, still?" Visitors--you get more office drop-bys when you have a weird walking desk than when you have doughnuts--sweetly avert their eyes as the weight question comes up. Apart from that, my week using it was not unlike a regular workweek. Here's the, ahem, rundown...
...Noble of the British AIDS charity Avert says recent setbacks for research into an AIDS vaccine, along with multiple false hopes in the search for a cure, have caused many in the HIV activism community to view Huetter's experiment warily. For many AIDS activists, bone-marrow transplantation is a loaded procedure that evokes a traumatic past: before antivirals were widely introduced in the 1990s, it was one of the aggressive and often fatal procedures doctors tried in their desperate effort to halt the epidemic; some of these transplants even used marrow harvested from baboons...
...stages of development around the country. If those plants are built without the means to capture and sequester underground the carbon they emit - and it's far from clear that such technology will be commercially viable in the near-term - our ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avert climate change will be meaningless...
...Britain last week and is set for a limited U.S. release next month. This is no jaunty jailhouse flick, but rather the most uncomfortable 96 minutes anyone is likely to spend in a cinema this year. Graphic violence, emaciated bodies and stomach-churning filth provide most of the avert-your-eyes moments...
...haven for wealthy individuals from less stable countries like Iran and Pakistan. What's more, Dubai's property sector is dominated by a handful of companies--collectively dubbed Dubai Inc.--that are directly or indirectly owned and controlled by the government. Some argue that Dubai's authorities could thus avert a bubble burst by keeping finished projects off-line until conditions improve. Also, in the event of a systemic threat, Dubai can probably rely on superrich Abu Dhabi for a bailout...