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...American Airlines 727 that lands each morning at Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados carries not only vacationers but also an impressive load of paperwork. In order to cut costs on the processing of passenger ticket-coupons collected at its boarding gates, American flies daily an average of 1,100 lbs. of documents to the balmy island. In Barbados, some 500 computer keypunch operators employed by Caribbean Data Services, a subsidiary of the airline, transfer the ticket information to magnetic tape. The electronic data are then beamed by satellite to American's central computer in Tulsa. Despite extra expenses like...
...That's why, Fauci says, he rejected the proposal to do a large trial, involving thousands of patients and numerous immune correlates. "What I will entertain is a leaner, meaner and smaller trial that precisely asks and answers, 'Does the vaccine work and is it successful in lowering viral load?'" Fauci says. "If it does, then we go back and start investing more money, people and samples to see if we can find the right immunological correlates. If it doesn't, then it doesn't matter what the immune correlates are, because it didn't work...
...says, the best way to answer that question is by narrowing the focus of a vaccine study to see if it can do one thing: reduce the viral load in someone infected with HIV. If a vaccine can do that, it's worth looking at more closely to figure out how it does it. "Scaling back the trial to look at a single endpoint is a concept that a number of us have championed," agrees Wayne Koff, senior vice president of research and development at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative...
Nouveau Riche If you ask Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, the crusty chief curator of the Louvre's sculpture department, what has changed in the Loyrette era, she'll grumble a bit about the heavier load of administration that comes the way of the museum's seven departments. She's also not convinced that appointing department heads for just three years at a time is a smart move. Until Loyrette came along, they were appointed for life. "Five years would be better. You can't get anything done in three," says Bresc-Bautier, who was appointed by Loyrette after...
...either log onto a wi-fi network or physically plug my phone into my PC. And it still feels pokey compared to my cable broadband connection at home. At times, downloads took so long that I gave up on checking for new messages and waiting for mobile websites to load. Even the prettiest browser can't make up for that...