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...another AIDS epidemic? Not necessarily, as long as the public heeds the wake-up call and reverts to the prevention practices that were strictly followed during the height of the AIDS crisis. Vigilance has since slackened, in part because of the successes of powerful anti-HIV medications. --By Alice Park...
...looking closely for similar risks when the next three COX-2 inhibitors in the pipeline--Merck's Arcoxia, Pfizer's Dynastat and Novartis' Prexige--come up for review in a few years. This time they hope to discover potential problems before the drugs are approved, not after. --By Alice Park...
OPENED. THE GATES, 7,500 saffron-colored fabric panels hanging from 4.9-m.-tall portals along 37 km. of walkway in Central Park; in New York City. The brainchild of duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the public art installation took 26 years of planning and $20 million to execute, but will be remarkably short-lived: The Gates come down...
...products and services to the North, according to government figures and Hyundai Asan, a company involved in joint North-South industrial projects. This year's transfers?if a planned donation of 500,000 tons of fertilizer goes ahead?will likely be at least $350 million. The new Kaesong industrial park, just north of the Demilitarized Zone, is the most visible symbol of economic cooperation between the two countries. In late 2004, the first of what South Korea hopes will be 2,000 factories built over the next 15 years?all funded by South Korean companies?started churning out stainless steel...
...children would one day take over the task of building paradise on earth. But North Koreans, who these days prefer to get their drama from pirated South Korean soap operas, may no longer care. Most North Koreans don't even know how many sons the Dear Leader has, says Park Sang Hak, a defector and human-rights activist in Seoul. "People are too tired of endless hunger and threats of war to think about the succession," says Park. About all they could expect from a coronation ceremony might be an extra bowl of rice and an admonition not to show...