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...that government health officials had planned - until the Merck vaccine failed last fall. In a trial of 3,000 volunteers, Merck's vaccine appeared to increase risk of HIV infection, a phenomenon that researchers later attributed to the vaccine's delivery system - pieces of HIV were piggybacked onto a common cold virus and ferried to the body's immune cells. It turned out that the people who received the vaccine and who ended up with the highest rates of HIV infection following injection were also those who had high levels of antibodies to the cold virus, thus negating any immune...
...emotionally devastating, but O'Connor the athlete had to move on. She saddled another horse, a thoroughbred named Mandiba, to continue her Olympic quest. Then she suffered a more common form of sports heartbreak. On July 15, the U.S. Equestrian Federation named its five riders for the eventing team. Eventing is the triathlon of equestrian, a competition that combines dressage (the so-called "horse ballet" in which the rider guides the horse through a series of movements), cross-country riding and show jumping. O'Connor, a two-time Olympic medalist and one of the most decorated riders...
...such species to survive winters warmed by climate change. In 2005 Edinburgh Zoo issued a public notice after several panicked Scots reported seeing a spider called a false widow, which has a disconcerting behavior of rushing toward people who approach it. The spider turned out to be quite common--in the Canary Islands...
Nabi's pessimism is very common now in Afghanistan. There has been a dramatic series of recent attacks by the Taliban: a mass assault on a jail freed hundreds of prisoners, and a suicide bombing outside the Indian embassy on July 7 killed 40 and injured over 100. Many of these assaults are planned and supported from safe havens across the border in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Western troop casualties are climbing; the last two months exceeded the monthly death toll in Iraq. On July 13, nine U.S. soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters swarmed over their base...
...sets in Kabul and the wail of the muezzin issuing from loudspeakers mounted on minarets calls the faithful to evening prayer, the fryer at KFC is being fired up for the evening rush. But Kabul Fried Chicken has little in common with the U.S. chain whose initials it copied: The chairs are a little too high for the tables, and the delights depicted in photographs mounted on the walls - big milkshakes, braised ribs, lattes - are conspicuously absent from the menu. The fare on offer is more egalitarian. Kebabs, pizza and, of course, fried chicken...