Word: gero
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...human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a pathogen so wily and protean that researchers rarely talk about curing infected patients, focusing instead on treatment and prevention. But in an announcement that caused a flutter of excitement and a wave of prudent skepticism, Berlin-based hematologist Gero Huetter claimed on Thursday that he has cured an HIV infection in a 42-year-old man through a bone-marrow transplant...
...That sets a new tone for elections in Hamburg and Bavaria later this year, as well as for federal elections in late 2009. In Berlin, it makes further economic reforms unlikely until a new government is sitting in the Bundes-tag. "Germans fear the negative effects of globalization," says Gero Neugebauer, a political scientist at Berlin's Free University. "The political parties have sensed that...
...year-old boy in the Japanese town of Gero suddenly ran out of his home and into the middle of a busy street, where he was struck and killed by a truck. In 2005 a 14-year-old boy Chiryu got out of bed, climbed the wall outside his parent's ninth-floor apartment and dropped from the edge. And last month, in two separate incidents, a 14-year old male and a 14-year old female fell to their deaths from their respective high-rise apartment buildings. No one left a suicide note...