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...teens [Books, Sept. 23] quoted author Michael Chabon as saying that "you have to sell adult readers on fantasy. Kids just accept it." If Chabon is right, then explain to me why I, a middle-aged adult, have read the Harry Potter books five times each! MARIANNE L. ADAMS Diamond Bar, Calif...
...people (about 1% or 2%) who get infected with the virus never develop the disease. For more than 15 years, scientists have searched for the chemical factors that protect these so-called long-term nonprogressors, and now a team of researchers including Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, think they have found them. Using new protein-chip technology, they have identified three proteins--alpha-defensins 1, 2 and 3--that are present in nonprogressors but not in AIDS patients. The defensins, which are well known as natural bacteria fighters, could offer scientists a promising...
While some shops carry all kinds of antiques, many specialize. Gerald Katz Antiques on Royal Street concentrates on antique and estate jewelry, according to its president, David Gibson. His offerings range from a pair of "retromodern" American 1940s earrings for $400 to an 1870 French emerald, diamond and gold bracelet for $125,000. Military-history buffs looking for antique toy soldiers can stop into David Dugas' shop, Le Petit Soldier, also located on Royal Street. There you can shell out anywhere from $20 for a 1930s, 3 1/2-in. papier-mache soldier to $4,500 for a 1930s windup German gunboat...
...pray for the peace—we pray for those who died,” said a monk from the True Buddha Diamond Temple, located just south of Ground Zero, while taking a break from his chanting and incantations...
...care. We talk about the need to balance freedom and security, but both have shriveled in the heat of the threat. There seemed to be a spirit of infectious virtue everywhere we turned a year ago; we have since looked from the pulpit to the boardroom to the baseball diamond and wondered if there was an honest man anywhere in sight...