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...past the days when medicines junked in the West are exported to the Third World, but South Africa is aggressively defending its right to import junked science. Even as his government confirmed this week that at least one in every 10 South Africans is HIV-positive, President Thabo Mbeki lashed out at critics of his government's flirtation with self-styled "dissident" AIDS scientists who believe the disease isn't caused by the HIV virus. Mbeki even put a nationalist spin on his angry retort to those who criticized him for giving credence to discredited science. Distinguishing AIDS in Africa...
...Clinton administration has worked surreptitiously to ensure the demise of a World Bank proposal permitting the world's poorest countries to sell goods to the United States and other wealthy nations without tariffs or import quotas. The administration's maneuvers stem from the fear that, in this time of high U.S. trade deficits, such a proposal to fling open U.S. markets would hinder efforts to normalize trade with China and frighten Congress into withdrawing its tentative support of an African trade bill currently under debate...
...needless to say are all male, are on an isolated island at a decadent cocktail party. The absence of any female presence has begun to strike the audience when a crowd of gorgeous young women, dressed to the nines, parades in. None of the women say anything of import--they were simply shipped in as sex objects for the entertainment of these "leaders of the future." Remind anyone of the last final club party they were...
...together several times a year. In the intervals, Prouty finds that work is the best antidote for his loneliness, and India is the beneficiary. With one hand on the pulse of the country's tech industry and the other flipping through a Rolodex of global resources, Prouty is helping import the vibrancy of Silicon Valley to southern India...
...might not have to fix that many genes--just a few hundred mainly developmental ones. The genes for the immune system, for memory mechanisms and the like would all be standard for a vertebrate. To fine-tune the creature, they could go fishing in other bird genomes, or perhaps import a few ideas from lizards and turtles...