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...proved that for Yushchenko, the personal stakes may be even higher. The amount of toxin in his bloodstream is so great that tests could not measure it. Had the dose been any larger, he would likely be dead. And though he is recovering - his intense back pain subsiding, liver function returning, energy rebounding - his long-term prospects are bleak. "I don't want to scare him or his family," Zimpfer told TIME, "but there will be health problems." Dioxins are a family of toxic chemicals produced in some manufacturing and as an ingredient in weapons of war. One well-known...
...process of handing over services like maintenance, dining and security to private companies, who take care of the bureaucratic and administrative details involved in hiring decisions, wage and benefits scales and allocation of labor. The companies decide who goes where and what they need to function, in other words, while the University can focus on other things...
...rain would be absorbed by the roots of the trees that line the mountainsides. But the mountains in Quezon have been steadily denuded of trees in the past four decades. (Much of the logging is illegal.) The mountains behind the towns of Real, Infanta and General Nakar no longer function as shield or sponge. Instead, they have become instruments of death-powerful delivery systems of floodwater and mud. Last Monday, Mary Anne Bantucan, a 34-year-old schoolteacher from Maragondon, was returning to her hometown from Infanta in a jeepney with her mother and eight other passengers when Typhoon Winnie...
...invented in 1997 while a graduate student at Caltech. Instead of using time-consuming methods like trial and error, he asked a computer to figure out what mix of amino acids would make a protein of a particular shape. (Shape is important because a protein's structure determines its function. Just like a flathead screwdriver is appropriate for some jobs and a Philips for others, proteins' different shapes help them effectively attack different disease cells.) The desired shape is easy to figure out; finding the single protein in a world populated by trillions of them is the hard part...
...trees, so they no longer function as shield or sponge. Instead, they have become powerful delivery systems of floodwater and mud. When Typhoon Winnie hit the coast last Monday, said one resident: "I saw this house being swept away in its entirety, and cars, vans and jeeps were all washed away." By the time Typhoon Nanmadol, which hit land late Thursday, had moved away from the coast, at least 640 people were confirmed dead and nearly 400 were missing. Rescue efforts were made almost impossible by blocked roads, washed-out bridges and the storms that succeeded Winnie. Soldiers slogged through...