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ADARC had plenty of company. Vaccine efforts were progressing elsewhere in the AIDS community, but unevenly. Testing for one candidate, made by Merck, began in 2004 with much fanfare and ended three years later with disappointing results: not only had the vaccine not offered protection against HIV infection, but it actually seemed to increase the risk for some people. Because of the Merck results, the NIH, which had a similar vaccine in the works, put off plans for its own study...
...year hailed as Africa's coming-out party on the world soccer stage began disastrously. On Jan. 8, militants mistakenly opened fire on a bus carrying Togo's national team, killing three people. The squad was traveling in the restive Cabinda region of Angola to play in the African Cup of Nations tournament, a tune-up for this summer's World Cup in South Africa. Separatist rebels apologized for the attack, explaining that an Angolan convoy had been their intended target...
Although several of the pieces included in “Close Calls with Nonsense” had previously appeared in various publications such as The London Review of Books, Burt said that he began to speak with publishers about compiling them into a book...
Prior to her 2008 nomination to a judgeship in the Santa Clara County Superior Court, Koh began her career at the Department of Justice and then moved to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles to prosecute violent crime and fraud cases. She later worked as an intellectual property litigator in Silicon Valley with the firm McDermott, Will & Emery...
...Yellowjackets, a win against the Crimson felt like redemption after its 8-1 loss to No. 1 Trinity the day before. With the end of Michas and Endresen’s matches, a disappointed Crimson team began to focus its sights on playing the top team in the nation next weekend...