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...Baghdad - or at least, not in a part of the city that most Iraqis would recognize. Instead, we?re inside the fortified International Zone, the 4-sq.-mi. palace compound largely built by Saddam Hussein which since 2003 has been home to the top U.S. diplomats and is still the only patch of Iraq deemed secure enough for most visiting dignitaries to see. The driver, a staff member of the U.S. embassy, rarely ventures into downtown Baghdad because of safety concerns...
...have established a baseline of what is currently possible and what still needs to be done to create an avian flu vaccine for people. Already there are other studies under way to see if the dosage can be reduced by adding so-called adjuvants - like aluminum hydroxide or another compound called MS59 - to boost the vaccine?s effectiveness. Aluminum hydroxide has been used as an adjuvant previously in the U.S., whereas another compound called MS59 has been used in Europe...
...minutes it took the soldiers to drive back to their heavily fortified compound their raid was in the spotlight, splashing across television with claims that the 16 men had been butchered as they gathered prayerfully in a mosque. Soon pictures showed bloodied bodies broken and prone over prayer mats, without a weapon in sight (U.S. army photos showed the exact opposite; dead men, weapons draped, not a prayer mat to be seen). Any military success the men of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 1st Iraqi Special Operations Forces Brigade had was quickly swamped by a political and propaganda firestorm...
...albeit atmospheric, songs, Editors maintain the same calculated, tight sound throughout. Alas, like Interpol, Editors suffer from mediocre and repetitively bleak lyrics. Because their vocal range and guitar style is already rather limited, lyrical diversity could have provided Editors with much-needed variety, but instead the tedious lyrics only compound the band’s repetitive sound. On the first track, “Lights,” Smith announces, “I’ve got a million things to say.” If only it were true. That much of “The Back Room?...
...with nearly 40,000 subjects, the vaccine reduced rash and pain from shingles by more than 60% in elderly adults. ?AIDS Doctors are close to adding one more powerful ingredient to their antiviral recipe against AIDS. Researchers at Pfizer have developed the first in a new class of compounds that would prevent HIV from entering and infecting a healthy cell. So far, the medications that have saved millions of AIDS patients around the world have thwarted HIV at the end of its reproductive cycle; Pfizer's compound, a once-a-day pill called Miraviroc, targets the beginning...