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...effective AIDS vaccine remains. On the positive side, in 2009, scientists announced that they had developed the first vaccine to show any effect against HIV infection - although that effect is, by all measures, modest. The vaccine's ability to reduce the risk of new HIV infection 31% is nowhere near the 70% to 90% that public-health experts normally view as a minimum threshold for an infectious-disease vaccine. Even further behind in development, but still promising, are two new antibodies identified by a group of researchers working at a number of labs that, at least in a dish, seem...
...What They're Catching in Kenya: Apparently there's an upside to living near pirate-infested waters: good fishing. In recent years, the illegal commercial trawlers that would loot the oceans off the Somalian coastline have stayed away due to the threat of hijacking. That's leaving local fishermen in Somalia and northern Kenya with outsize catches--red snapper, barracuda and oranda have all reportedly returned in large numbers--and, as a result, higher incomes and a better quality of life...
Every January, film buffs descend on Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival, braving subzero temperatures for a sneak peak at indie movies that very likely will never be shown in a theater near...
Counter said that he plans to return to Haiti in the near future with one thousand body bags and one hundred tents, all donated by actor Will Smith...
...York City had 50,372; Detroit had 18,062; Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada, had 11,417; Houston had 10,363; and the Denver and Phoenix metropolitan areas approximately 8,500 each. The concentration of the homeless per 10,000 in population is a different story. With the near collapse of the auto industry in 2009, Detroit led the nation, with 216 homeless per 10,000 people. Next in the rankings: Mendocino County, California (161.3), Monroe County, Florida (146.9), and Portland, Maine (116). (See the top 10 news stories...