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...this a viable cure for HIV? Not by a long shot. Even Huetter says bone-marrow transplants, which kill about a third of patients, are so dangerous that "they can't be justified ethically" in anything other than desperate situations like late-stage leukemia. Nor is it clear that Huetter's claim to have cured his patient is yet justified. HIV has a frustrating ability to hide in hard-to-detect "reservoir" cells in various parts of the body. Current antiviral drugs, for example, can lower a patient's "viral load" to the point that HIV is undetectable...
...turmoil has some questioning not just hedge-fund performance of late, but also the industry's essential business model. Hedge funds employ a dizzying array of investment strategies, from reliance upon superstar managers who preside like Delphic oracles to the use of byzantine computer algorithms that pick out minute pricing discrepancies and take advantage of them. The profits on these transactions may be small, but funds multiply them many times over by leveraging their investors' capital. This strategy can go awry - as it did spectacularly in 1998 when Long Term Capital Management, a giant U.S. fund whose founders included...
John Key can thank many things for his rise to New Zealand's top job - not least the receptionist skills of his sister. Liz Cave was the face of a large Christchurch clothing company in late 1998 when the then president of the governing National Party, John Slater, came visiting on business. Knowing him a little, she summoned the courage to say, "Would you mind if I asked you a personal question?" Not at all, replied Slater. "I have a brother who lives overseas," Cave told him. "He's planning to come back and he may be interested in going...
...Baron eventually came up with the more palatable Sipahh. Since launching them in late 2005, he's sold more than 500 million of the plastic straws, which are filled with flavor beads that dissolve when milk is sucked - or sipped - through them. End to end, he boasts, the straws would go twice around the world. But it's not far enough. Baron believes he can more than double his sales by putting beads of bacteria inside the straws...
...Taste of Success The flavored-milk straws hit Australian shelves in late 2005 and are now sold in 69 countries; Russia and China will soon join the list. Baron is also looking at flavor straws for water and fruit juice. Ingredients have been trialed that make soda water taste like Coca-Cola, and an Indian company called recently to ask if it was possible to add spicy masala flavor to the beads for mixing with orange juice. "It tasted great," Baron says of the sample batch...