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...didn't happen. Instead, the Thai government launched a comprehensive education and prevention campaign. Brothels started using condoms. Public-service messages were broadcast on radio and television every two hours. Anti-AIDS messages-often served with a healthy dose of sanuk, the Thai sense of playfulness-were spread in schools, hospitals, police stations and courthouses. After peaking at 143,000 in 1991, the annual number of new cases of HIV infection fell to 19,000 in 2003. That still leaves 604,000 Thais living with HIV or AIDS, but it could have been much, much worse...
...mother was healthy and the pregnancy normal. But as soon as her baby was born, doctors were struck by the infant's extraordinary muscularity. By 7 months, he had a bodybuilder's pumped-up proportions. Researchers determined that the baby had a double dose of a mutation that inactivates a protein that restrains muscle development (a mutation also seen in mice and cattle). While scientists hope that pinpointing the mutation will help them learn how to reverse muscle wasting from disease, they also know that someday somebody will try to parlay it into a performance-enhancing drug. --By David Bjerklie
...Core and beyond. But the recently released Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) report, which contains initial recommendations, is nothing spectacular. Instead of the kinds of sweeping reforms of years past, the College got a laundry list of generally unoriginal ideas poached from other schools mixed with an unconvincing dose of rhetoric about “internationalization...
Veritas will get a little dose of comedy today, as the Harvard Law School (HLS) graduating class celebrates its Class Day with guest speaker, noted character actor and political speechwriter Ben Stein...
Opponents make three broad arguments, the simplest of which concerns radiation. In its just-published position paper on whole-body scanning, the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine estimates that subjects receive between 10-20 millisieverts of radiation per scan - a "non-trivial" dose, especially if the person has regular scans. (Nuclear facility workers are limited to an annual radiation dose of 30-50 mSv.) N.S.W. licensing laws require operators to explain to patients that "persons under the age of 50 years are more at risk of developing cancers as a result of the procedure...