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When asked whether his new findings, if replicated, may help guide current policy, Weiss says, "The straight answer is no. It doesn't really help us think about a vaccine." He adds, "It also doesn't help in other ideas about prevention." Eventually, however, researchers hope to learn how the gene variant slows progression of the AIDS, which may inspire new treatments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetic Variant Raises HIV Risk | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...expensive to run for Congress that incumbents, who have no other day job and better access to cash, enjoy a re-election rate of better than 90%. The only hope for turnover is for members to hate the job so much that they leave on their own, or for voters to be so hungry for change they'll risk backing the long shot. As it happens, both now seem to be occurring. With some 30 of their members bailing out, Republicans are running a crop of entrepreneurs and CEOS (it helps for amateurs to pay their own way), including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Throw the Bums Out! | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...which would be within the 10-mile-wide, U.S.-controlled Green Zone. Seek out some journalists, Senator Jack Reed told him, and ask them to give you an off-the-record assessment of what life there is really like. As Obama later wrote in his book The Audacity of Hope, that session turned out to be a valuable reality check, a reminder of "just how quixotic our efforts in Iraq still seemed - how, with all the American blood, treasure and the best of intentions, the house we were building might be resting on quicksand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's War Zone Guides | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...textbooks, Flat World will likely have smaller margins and thus the start-up could struggle to attract more authors. "I just don't see how they will be able to offer equal compensation," says Koch, who has studied the textbook industry extensively. "Their utopian approach is based on the hope that real economics don't apply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming This Fall: Free Textbooks | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

...just protecting the child from his drug-addicted mother. Weston tried to question the mom, still in her teens but with the sunken face of an old woman. "All she can tell us about the child's dad is that he's called John," he says. "What hope do kids like this have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Britain Save Its Wayward Youth? | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

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