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...bristled at the suggestion that Paris wasn't pulling its weight. A French general commands the existing 2,000-strong unifil force, which has been monitoring conflict along the border since 1978, and the French government says it is ready to keep that command through February. France will also maintain its naval presence, which has been shuttling evacuees to Cyprus. What it balks at is committing large numbers of troops to the enlarged U.N. force itself. "I remember the painful experience of other operations where U.N. forces didn't have sufficiently precise missions or means," Alliot-Marie told French radio...
...Because these latest microbicides are reformulated ARVs, however, the problem of the virus becoming resistant to them is a potential drawback. Dr. Peter Piot, of UNAIDS, suggests basing microbicides only on the drugs that do not make it through the pharmaceutical pipeline - many are rejected because they don't maintain high enough levels in the blood to treat an HIV infection, but could be sufficiently powerful to prevent transmission. But Zeda Rosenberg, CEO of International Partnership for Microbicides, which has sponsored a number of the trials, believes that since microbicides aren't designed to enter the bloodstream and suppress...
...Shenzhen three years ago to make consumer-electronics gear, but he's already getting squeezed. Gong says his costs are rising by 10% annually, driven mainly by higher wages, and tough competition prevents him from increasing the price of his products. Gong says falling component costs are helping him maintain profit margins, but saving money by relocating his factory to a less expensive part of China is out of the question because he needs to stay close to the component suppliers clustered in Shenzhen. "If I moved to Hunan or Hubei, it would be hard to find the parts...
...demagoguery, but his strategy has betrayed the nation's best interests. It has destroyed any chance of a unified U.S. response to a crisis overseas. Even the Wall Street Journal's quasi-wingnut editorial page cautioned, in the midst of a typical anti-Democratic harrumph, "[No] President can maintain a war for long without any support from the opposition party; sooner or later his own party will begin to crack as well...
...much of it, and they have intentionally limited their operations to something less than trying to hold ground. So President Bush referred to a fact not yet established on the ground when he insisted on Tuesday - over objections from Lebanon and other Arab governments - that Israel be allowed to maintain control of southern Lebanon until the arrival of an international force...