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...first page of the pamphlet consists of a picture of a mother and her newborn as well as a letter from the president of the Minnesota Alliance who suggests, "Perhaps abortion isn't about women's rights after all!" Of course there is more to an abortion than the right to have one, but to deny all facets of the issue shows ignorance...
...AIDS-resistant babies, by contrast, remain baffling. A newborn's immune system isn't fully functional until around 18 months, so how could it successfully fight off an HIV invasion? But a report published in Lancet suggests that's just what the infant immune systems did. In the study, researchers followed more than 250 children in Sweden, Belgium and Italy, testing them at intervals for the presence of both antibodies to HIV and the virus itself...
Leaving behind Evans' 19-month-old son Jordan, who police believe is Ward's biological son, the threesome fled with the newborn and his brother Joshua, 8. Police later learned that Joshua reached out for help, telling an adult about the murders and charging that Ward had been involved. His captors then allegedly tried poisoning and strangling Joshua before stabbing him to death. Police found his body in an alley in the suburb of Maywood...
...cheer for the newborn king...
This makes vaccine development extremely risky. A weakened strain of SIV that protected adult monkeys, for example, looked safe until researchers at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston showed that newborn monkeys with immature immune systems did not respond as healthy adults do. All the young primates, in fact, developed the very disease the weakened virus was supposed to prevent. For this and a host of other reasons, most AIDS researchers argue that the only prudent strategy is to concoct a hybrid vaccine, putting the key features of a disabled AIDS virus into something more benign than a retrovirus...