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With the assistance of an 84-foot radiotelescope in Harvard, Mass., Horowitz and his assistants listen for frequencies near the neutral hydrogen line, which could indicate the existence of life in outer space...
...happened at 10:35 that Friday morning in Nairobi. The most intriguing information has come from Kenyan guards who work for the private, California-based United International Investigative Services, hired to provide security in the perimeter areas of the embassy. Benson Okuku Bwaku, a 33-year-old manning the outer barrier at the building's rear entrance, has told the FBI and a number of newspapers how he encountered one of the bombers face to face...
First, some background. Scientists have long known that HIV is devilishly effective at fending off antibodies lobbed at it by the body's immune system. One way the virus does that is by mutating rapidly, changing the various amino acids that make up its outer shell and thus forcing the body to churn out millions of new antibodies, all of which may become ineffective with the next mutation. Some parts of the virus don't change, however; if they did, HIV would rapidly lose its power to infect. If scientists understood more about those parts, they could use them...
Just because HIV can outfox the immune system, however, doesn't mean it will always outmaneuver drug developers. Most drugs are very small molecules, much smaller than antibodies. Properly designed drugs might be able to infiltrate some of those crevices in HIV's outer walls. There's no guarantee that such an approach will work. But it's certainly easier to try when you have a picture in front of you showing you where to begin...
JOEL SIEGEL, film critic, Good Morning America: "There are evil movies, like Triumph of the Will [1934], and incompetent ones, like Plan 9 from Outer Space [1958]. But then there are plain dreadful movies, like The Bonfire of the Vanities [1990; photo...