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...Fakoya, a London-based clinician and senior adviser to the British nonprofit AIDS Alliance, tells TIME that a 30% efficacy rate is still very low. By comparison, studies in Africa suggest that male circumcision can cut the risk of HIV infection in men by up to 60%. Still, in a field that has been beset by a series of high-profile failures in the past 20 years - in 2007, for example, two international trials of a promising Merck vaccine in about 4,000 people were stopped early, and later analysis suggested that the vaccine may have increased people's risk...
...British poet Simon Armitage has had a prolific writing career. Beginning with his first collection of poems in 1989 and spanning 13 volumes since, Armitage’s poetry has grown up with a whole generation of British children, taking its place in the high school English literature curriculum alongside Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. As well as teaching creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom, Armitage embarks regularly on reading tours and on Tuesday, he held a poetry reading in the Woodberry Poetry Room in the Houghton Library.Armitage’s profile has been steadily...
Elaborate costumes, gorgeous cinematography, British accents, a doomed romance—on paper, writer and director Jane Campion’s “Bright Star” contains all the elements of an effective period romance. And yet the film—which centers on the burgeoning love between Romantic poet John Keats and his neighbor Fanny Brawne—proves disappointing, permanently handicapped by its lack of dramatic tension. Ben Whishaw (“Brideshead Revisited”) and Abbie Cornish (“Stop-Loss”) are wholly convincing as the movie’s tragic...
...Obama's attempt to hold Iran to account may disappoint many who have been closely tracking the U.S. effort to back Tehran away from the nuclear threshold - not because the President showed any lack of resolve, but because the resolve of others remains in question. The British and French leaders were adamant in their support, with Sarkozy warning that "if by December there is not an in-depth change by the Iranian leaders," tough new sanctions would be applied. Brown called the new development the greatest challenge facing the international community. But Germany, which has recently shown reticence to expand...
...that people should always embrace the person. People make their own decisions. With regard to the agitations and provocations created by some western governments, that is correct, they too tried to actually portray the chaos as legal and as a positive trend. They gave it a positive spin. Specifically British officials from the government did these acts. They were involved. We are not saying that they designed and planned what transpired in the elections in Iran, but what I mean is that they were involved. Interfering in the domestic affairs of other countries is illegal, and not only that; they...