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...AIDS virus as those who were lesion free. "An ulcer breaks the integrity of the skin and allows infected blood to come into contact with a sexual partner," says Cameron. Thus, he adds, controlling treatable diseases like herpes and educating uncircumcised men about their risk could make a slight dent in the so far incurable scourge...
...sure, the low voter turnout is due to the fairly uneventful race for mayor. Flynn's closest competition, City Councilor Joseph Tierney, proved to be a weak challenger, scraping up only 27 percent of the vote. The two other candidates in the preliminary election barely made a dent in the electoral column...
...Ford, the experience was akin to buying a new car and then suffering a serious dent only a few days later. The No. 2 U.S. automaker began last week by announcing plans to acquire a 75% stake (price: more than $30 million) in Aston Martin Lagonda, the manufacturer of hand-assembled sports cars that carry an average price tag of $130,000. While the British car company has sputtered financially, its products have long enjoyed a sterling reputation. Queen Elizabeth II gave an Aston Martin to Prince Charles for his 21st birthday, and James Bond has driven the cars...
...romantic killer is not an image that Dickey, 64, now cares to perpetuate. Sipping milk on a Sullivan's Island porch a few miles outside Charleston, he tells of blood on the brain that threatened his life last year and required surgery that left a dent in his skull. He talks of hanging up his hunting weapons and of resisting the temptations that caused Hemingway's slippage from art to publicity. "The work is the im-paw-dent thing," he says. "That's all that's going to be left. Otherwise it's just a faded photograph album with...
...more attention than it deserves." Still, Blinn believes, as long as the scientific data used to generate the images are accurate, computer graphics can prod scientists to move in exciting new directions. NCSA's Upson agrees. "If we play our cards right," he says, "we may actually make a dent in how people do science...