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...Indeed, South Africans credit Nkosi with forcing them to deal with AIDS sufferers as part of their community, rather than shunning them or denying their existence. And in a country where one in nine people is infected with HIV, that was a profoundly important breakthrough. But it couldn't end with simply acknowledging the problem. When he was invited to address last year's international conference on AIDS in Durban, Nkosi not only appealed for AIDS sufferers to be treated with love, warmth and respect, he scolded South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki - who remains skeptical about the accepted wisdom...
...breakthrough - slowing light to a stop, storing it and then releasing it at will as if it were an ordinary particle - has apparently been pulled off by two independent teams of physicists, one led by Dr. Ronald L. Walsworth and Dr. Mikhail D. Lukin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the other by Dr. Lene Vestergaard Hau of Harvard, who made similar headlines two years ago when she slowed a beam of light down to a nearly pedestrian 38 miles an hour. Walsworth's work will be published in the Jan. 29 Physical Review Letters...
...Despite all these caveats, Glivec is still a breakthrough?not only for what it does but, more important, for the revolutionary strategy it represents. A full 30 years have passed since President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer and called for a national commitment comparable to the effort to land on the moon or split the atom. But over those three decades, researchers have come up with one potential miracle cure after another?only to suffer one disappointment after another. Aside from surgery, which almost invariably leaves behind some malignant cells, the standard treatment for most cancers continues...
...Tamil Tiger rebels were complicated by a bomb attack on a rebel leader and demands by a leading Muslim party for a role in the peace process. Envoy Erik Solheim held talks with President Chandrika Kumaratunga and met Tamil leaders in rebel-held territory, but discussions ended without a breakthrough. Both sides agreed to continue deliberations to end the 18-year conflict...
Despite all these caveats, Gleevec is still a breakthrough--not only for what it does but, more important, for the revolutionary strategy it represents. A full 30 years have passed since President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer and called for a national commitment comparable to the effort to land on the moon or split the atom. But over those three decades, researchers have come up with one potential miracle cure after another--only to suffer one disappointment after another. Aside from surgery, which almost invariably leaves behind some malignant cells, the standard treatment for most cancers continues...