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...While he didn't fight in the 2008 Summer Olympics, Pacquiao was the flag-bearer for the Philippines national team at the opening ceremonies in Beijing - the first Filipino non-Olympian...
...trouble at 12 months: not responding to one's name; not sharing interests through pointing and eye gaze; lack of joyful expression; an absence of babbling; difficulty establishing eye contact; and staring too long at inanimate objects (see FirstSigns.org for more early-warning signs). Investigators have identified these red-flag signs of autism by looking at early home videos of children who were diagnosed at age 3 or later and by studying the younger siblings of children with autism, who have relatively high rates - perhaps 15% - of the disorder. But no single behavior is indicative, and researchers believe that rather...
...allegory for America but also an actual rodeo show that takes 13 years to perform.” The script was so surreal, he says, that one of his thesis readers called it a novel rather than a play. “It has old men humping cars and flag burning, but also a Disney sensibility,” he says. At the end of the play, he gives instructions to the audience to speak with one of the characters. “The only stage directions,” he says, “are to continue the conversation...
Novavax's strategy involves isolating three proteins from the virus that flag the human immune system, which then churns out neutralizing antibodies against the proteins. These antibodies are robust enough to fight off the actual virus should an immunized person become infected. This is the same way the recently developed vaccine against human papilloma virus, Gardasil, works. "It provides the look and feel of the flu virus but does not have the genetic materials to cause disease," Singhvi says. (Read about the vaccine being prepared in case of a pandemic...
...revision of the manual, three new techniques were added: the good-cop, bad-cop routine; the "false flag" (allowing interrogators to claim that they are not Americans, if necessary), and, in carefully defined circumstances, separating detainees from one another. Human-rights advocates have argued that isolating captives is a form of cruelty...