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...Meanwhile, American pharmaceutical company VaxGen created quite a controversy by announcing early in the conference that its AIDS vaccine, currently in trials, could come to market as early as 2005. While many activists leapt at the news, scientists and journalists were more skeptical. "Until the trial results are available in 2003," wrote Mark Henderson of the London Times, "we have only the company's word to go on, which is not enough to convince that this is the breakthrough it claims to be." Dr. Kennedy agrees: "I think we've seen a lot of exaggerated claims surrounding this vaccine...
...Public Works - his new cabinet portfolio - at 12:40 p.m. But he never made it on to the street. Two assassins with AK-47assault rifles were waiting in the bushes shrouding the driveway. As Qadir's dark blue Land Cruiser nosed out of the white grill gates they leapt up and opened fire. Two minutes later the gunmen were gone, Qadir lay dying and the country was once again in turmoil...
...questioning the world we live in, this book reminded me of why it all matters." Kirkus agrees, giving the book a starred review. "A brilliantly constructed historical novel...This imposingly intricate novel begins slowly, makes heavy demands on the reader, and rises to a stunningly dramatic crescendo. Pears has leapt to a new level, creating a novel of ideas even more suspenseful and revelatory than his just acclaimed mysteries...
...boys leapt into the limelight last April with the launch of the show Meteor Garden on Taiwan's Chinese Television System. Women of all ages gushed over the romantic tale of a poor girl hooking up with a member of a rich brat-bully pack at an ?lite Taipei high school. (Mainland Chinese authorities were less enamored, saying it misled young viewers; Beijing recently banned the show after a few episodes aired on some local television stations.) The TV plot was adapted from a Japanese manga comic called Hana Yori Dango (Men Are Better Than Flowers). Chai, a variety-show...
Harvard had won three of four NCAA high jump competitions between the 2000 and 2001 indoor and outdoor seasons. Dora Gyorffy ’01 won both the 2000 NCAA Indoor title and the 2001 NCAA Outdoor title. Gyorffy, now Hungarian’s top high jumper, leapt 1.97 meters in Stuttgart on March 2. Only two high jumpers in the world have topped that performance this season...