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...report is brutally honest and surprisingly up-to-date, citing the Rush Limbaugh controversy and the Jim Cramer vs. Jon Stewart kerfuffle as evidence of the personality-driven nature of cable news and the viral powerhouse that is YouTube. And like so many panicked reports, this bleak prognosis on the health of American journalism grimly alludes to the 1930s as a way to really emphasize the dire straits we're in: "If estimates by Advertising Age prove accurate, total spending on advertising fell for the second consecutive year. Another decline is predicted for 2009. That would mark the first consecutive...
...quick. Still, this work is "identifying possible targets in the virus, and that's really the exciting part of it," says Dr. Adel Mahmoud, a lecturer at Princeton University and the former head of Merck Vaccines, the company that created the most promising HIV-vaccine candidate to date, which ultimately failed in clinical trials in 2007. (That drug, V520, used a common-cold virus to ferry three synthetic HIV genes into the body to trigger cell-mediated immunity. It was tested in several thousand people, but failed to provide immunity.) "We need to go back to an understanding...
...AIDS vaccine candidate that has so far made it to Phase III testing, the final stage before clinical approval. That vaccine was designed to spark an immune response to a surface protein called gp120. But results of that trial showed in 2003 that the vaccine was insufficiently effective. To date, dozens of possible AIDS vaccines have been tested, and none seem especially promising...
...Elior claims says these ancient historians, namely Philo and Pliny the Elder, either borrowed from each other or retailed second-hand stories as fact. "Pliny the Elder describes the Essenes as 'choosing the company of date palms' beside the Dead Sea. We know Pliny was a great reader, but he probably never visited Israel," she says...
...your girth would like (watch out for Mrs. Porter's apple pie). Besides providing Dunster residents an alternative to the grille (a great place for cheap eats—but if you live in C-entryway, be warned of the wandering fumes), the Porters will gladly be your dinner date. The couple is known to flit about the dining hall to sit down with every diner they see. If you're lucky enough, Mrs. Porter will have her glassy-eyed poodle in her arms...