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...difference is small but critical because the new success rate of 26% falls below the threshold for statistical significance. That means that the odds of being protected from infection by the AIDS vaccine may be no better than chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Rising Doubts About Hailed AIDS Vaccine | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...reduce our dependence on oil? I feel a tremendous amount of optimism about a shift toward electric cars. We need to rebuild the [electricity] grid, number one. We need to cap carbon dioxide emissions and put a price on them. And number three, we need to make better batteries and parts. Better batteries will usher in the dawn of the electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Impact of America's Oil Crisis | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...drugs has increased during clinical trials over the past few years. The article speculated that drug advertising - which exploded after 1997, when the Food and Drug Administration began allowing direct-to-consumer ads - has led us to expect more from drugs. Those expectations, in turn, have made us feel better just for popping a pill. (Placebo responses can also occur simply when you book appointments with doctors or psychotherapists.) (See the most common hospital mishaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flip Side of Placebos: The Nocebo Effect | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...acre lot, when you say apartment renters can't live in your community - these concrete policies are what contribute to segregation. It's not in our biology, and it's not natural. We're a great country - we've overcome some thorny problems in our past, and we're better than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Booming White Enclaves | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...head of the Communist Party's Propaganda Department, laid out the global media strategy in Qiu Shi, a CCP magazine. "It has become an urgent strategic task for us to make our communication capability match our international status," he wrote. "Nowadays, nations which have more advanced skills and better capability in communications will be more influential in the world and can spread their values further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Will Global News Outlets Bet on China? | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

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