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...stock market is too risky and that the lower yield of government Treasury bonds is more than offset by their greater stability. But all agree that something must be done, and soon: while the fund is currently operating at a surplus, the retirement of millions of Baby Boomers will exhaust it by the year 2029 if no changes are made. In releasing the final report, panel chair Edward Gramlich stressed that whatever solutions prove acceptable, something must be done: "We must begin to evaluate our options now to assure the American people that the program can continue to be financially...
...even the greatest marathoner could keep up that pace forever. If the virus reproduced very quickly, it would eventually exhaust the body's defenses. At least that's what Ho and Shaw thought. The trick to proving their idea was to find some way to suddenly stop the treadmill. If you did that to a jogger, he would lurch forward. Similarly, if you stopped HIV's cycle of reproduction in the blood, the immune system should suddenly rebound. By measuring that rebound, the scientists hoped to figure out just how rapidly the virus had been reproducing...
...majority of those with HIV outside the U.S. and Europe, the cost of the new "cocktail" treatments seems a cruel joke. The average Kenyan would exhaust his annual income in less than a week on the regimen. In India, where the government imposes 100% to 150% customs duty on pharmaceuticals brought from overseas, even a two-drug treatment can run to $3,500 a month, or more than 75 times the monthly earnings of poor laborers, who are the prime victims of the disease. "The new drugs will help the yuppies of the world," says Thailand's Mechai Viravaidya...
...like to be home with your family, but at the same time I like to wrestle so it's part of my commitment," junior James Butera said. "We only have a certain number of matches we can get in before the year so its best if you can exhaust all of your possible competition time--one of the ways to do that is to get in as many tournaments...
...call in Aurora, Colorado, came from a woman threatening to asphyxiate herself with a garden hose connected to an auto exhaust pipe. Within minutes, nine paramedics and fire fighters aboard two pumper trucks, a battalion fire chief in a Ford Bronco and a pair of medics from a private ambulance company had converged on the scene to administer oxygen to the woman and transport her to a hospital. Across this Denver suburb, a variety of rescue scenes were being repeated in similar all-hands fashion. Boasts fire chief Ray Barnes: "When lives are at stake, we want the fullest emergency...