Word: boosters
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Avanir’s antibiotic would be more powerful and possibly more effective than the current anthrax vaccines that require booster shots every year to remain potent and that combat only anthrax bacteria. But unlike the Avanir antibiotic, Cantley said he hoped that a drug designed to inhibit anthrax lethal factor would be effectively administrable after contraction of anthrax, thereby lessening the need to inoculate large populations and saving lives in cases of late diagnosis...
...HONG KONG: ELEMIS DAY SPA Slap-bang in the middle of the Central business district, this is a luxurious oasis for business travelers. Regulars swear by the Japanese Salt Booster Facial ($127) as well as the full body massage ($102/55...
...Club, an athletic booster group, will also help sponsor the tailgates, which will be organized in conjunction with various House Committees...
...higher-end,” says men’s basketball head coach Frank Sullivan. Nonetheless, if you see a straight-A student around campus who played sports in high school and was recruited but never played a game for Harvard, you’re probably looking at a booster. As for the gladiators, you probably wouldn’t see them if they did exist—unless you too are a recruited athlete, and spend most of your time in the vicinity of Soldiers Field...
...hard to put reliable numbers on the phenomenon. According to the World Travel Organization, a booster trade association that relies upon the governments of member nations for its figures, international tourism receipts in 2001, the last year for which statistics are available, were down 2.6% compared with 2000. Industry executives say that number should be multiplied by 5 to 10 in order to approach reality. More-reliable figures come from the airlines: American Airlines says passengers on trans-Pacific flights in June fell 22% compared with June 2002 (as opposed to a less than 1% drop across the Atlantic); meanwhile...