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PRICE CHECK Not long ago, banks were raising fees for checking-account customers who kept small balances. Is the tide turning? Citibank just slashed monthly charges on its EZ accounts to $7.50, from as high as $25 in some states. Nationally, fees average $9.50, according to Bank Rate Monitor. Washington Mutual, based in Seattle (800-756-8000), offers one of the best free-checking deals. For low-price offers check out community banks and credit unions...
...many older patients, protease inhibitors, available since 1995 and taken in combination with other antivirals, have kept HIV at below detectable levels. And while recent studies show that some HIV stubbornly hides from the drugs' reach, early evidence suggests that these sequestered strains may not be infectious. Drug holidays--brief respites from the grueling and complex medication regimen--are also being studied, since some patients who have voluntarily stopped their therapy have experienced no return of symptoms...
...invent the computer? Novel as it may have been, ABC could not be reprogrammed, did not handle large numbers well and never became fully operational. By contrast, the reprogrammable ENIAC did initial calculations for the H-bomb, kept flashing away for nearly a decade and led to a host of more sophisticated successors. Take your pick...
...funding, should have as much impact on our sense of what it is to be human as anything since Adam and Eve. Wilmut wanted to use his cloning technology to improve livestock. "I think we should trust the farmers," he said. Any experimentation with humans, he believed, should be kept strictly at the level of cells and proteins. It would be ethically unacceptable, he said, to use his technique to create a human clone...
Born in Cambridge, England, in 1883, the year Karl Marx died, Keynes probably saved capitalism from itself and surely kept latter-day Marxists...