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...newborn monkeys with immature immune systems did not respond as healthy adults do. All the young primates, in fact, developed the very disease the weakened virus was supposed to prevent. For this and a host of other reasons, most AIDS researchers argue that the only prudent strategy is to concoct a hybrid vaccine, putting the key features of a disabled AIDS virus into something more benign than a retrovirus. Among the leading candidates: the vaccinia virus that successfully wiped out smallpox...
...years ago, MTV made the uncharacteristic move of approaching two television producers significantly past the age of 25 to concoct a nighttime soap opera. What partners Mary-Ellis Bunim (a veteran of Search for Tomorrow and As the World Turns) and Jon Murray, both in their 40s, came up with -- The Real World -- was a hip complement to the channel's usual diet of music videos. Now in its fourth season, the documentary series follows the lives of six or seven carefully chosen young strangers, brought together to live for several months in a home seemingly decorated from a Pottery...
...precedent that the restraining order establishes is a dangerous one. Any time a given party receives referendum results they disagree with, they can concoct some allegation of improper conduct, even one without any merit...
...young woman's face, suffusing her with long-distance affection. And as the friendship between her and the judge ripens into respect and something like love, the emotional crisis in the old man's life is replayed and miraculously resolved (we won't say how). Finally, the filmmakers concoct another miracle to unite the main characters from the trilogy's three episodes. That's the upside of narrative caprice: change your mind, wave a wand and everyone lives happily -- or, in Kieslowski's films, thoughtfully -- ever after...
...despite more than a century of digging, the fossil record remains maddeningly sparse. With so few clues, even a single bone that doesn't fit into the picture can upset everything. Virtually every major discovery has put deep cracks in the conventional wisdom and forced scientists to concoct new theories, amid furious debate...