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Homebuilding stocks have been on a tear, climbing 168% on average from their trough in March, outpacing the S&P 500's 57% rise during the same period, says Barclays Capital analyst Megan Talbott McGrath, who tracks eight major builders. If Hovnanian Enterprises, whose stock has soared 645% from its trough, is excluded, builders have rallied 89% on average since March, she says...
...seen a positive signal of efficacy in a human trial of any HIV vaccine. That's an exciting result in a field that has been characterized by disappointments for two decades," says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which provided major funding and other support for the Thai trial...
...chose Berkeley over all the other universities because it offered me a very good education at a price my family could afford,” one freshman political science major, who skipped classes for the day in protest, told The New York Times...
...playing our best.” That confidence will be important on Saturday against the Demon Deacons, the highest ranked team Harvard has faced yet. Aside from a 1-0 loss to Virginia last week, the ACC squad has dominated its conference and is a major player on the national level. With last night’s win over the Wildcats (2-4-1), however, the Crimson overcame another hurdle before the match against the powerhouse from North Carolina. “It was a tough game,” co-captain Andre Akpan said...
...more troops. But Vice President Joe Biden and, perhaps, the President remain skeptics - and rightly so, since any military policy depends on whether the Afghan government can regain some credibility after the flagrantly corrupt August elections. If Hamid Karzai limps into a second term but does not make some major reforms - like removing his brother from power in Kandahar province - we will not have the legitimate local government that the military's counterinsurgency strategy requires...