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Traditionally, the most effective vaccines infect patients with a crippled form of the disease they target. Higgins’ method allows for an equally effective vaccine, without the difficulty of engineering a harmless form of the invader...
...NATO summit in Prague last week, Bush met with Turkey's President Ahmet Necdet Sezer to confirm that the U.S. did not want to see Iraq's borders changed. The Turkish government is worried that Iraqi Kurds will be so overjoyed if Saddam is defeated that their mood will infect the Kurds in Turkey, rekindling demands for autonomy from Ankara. As sweeteners, Bush reaffirmed American backing for Turkey's candidacy for membership in the European Union and promised support for Turkey's mess of an economy. Then he was off to Russia, where he reassured President Vladimir Putin that...
...Infect your roommates’ blankets with smallpox...
...incidence of certain sexually transmitted diseases rose among adolescents. A quarter of all new HIV cases today occur in those ages 21 and younger. And doctors are reporting more frequent diagnoses of herpes and the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which is linked to cervical cancer and is thought to infect more than 15% of sexually active teens. The last figure is the one gnawing at some doctors. Though the particulars of HPV remain something of a medical mystery, we have learned at least one frightening thing about the disease: HPV is spread through skin-to-skin contact of genitals...
...Algeria called for a truce after five years. And mujahedin in Bosnia lost all hope of transforming that nation's ethnic war into a jihad after the signing of the Dayton peace accord in 1995. They were forced to leave the country without seeing their radical fervor infect the local population...