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...seems clear that there will not be a single breakthrough HIV vaccine on a par with the dramatic polio advances of the 1950s. In fact, it will probably take several generations of vaccine development to come up with even a partially effective preparation. Any future HIV vaccine will also have to counteract all 10 of the known subtypes of HIV found around the world--not to mention any new ones that might mutate into being. The task seems so daunting as to be impossible...
Only about 25% of what Ed Rollins said about me in your excerpt of his book is true, and that's about par for his course. The true part is that I was indeed squeezed out as editor of the Chicago Tribune and that I thought Rollins was a complete misfit in the 1992 Ross Perot presidential campaign. It is untrue that I ever undermined Rollins or Perot aide Hamilton Jordan in any fashion, that I ever said one critical word about advertising consultant Hal Riney or that I ever leaked information about Rollins, Riney or anyone else during...
This time around, at the June Olympic trials, O'Brien had no problem with the pole vault, soaring to a height of 17 ft. 3/4 in., and despite less-than-par performances in the long jump and the 1,500 m, he finished first on the U.S. team, with 90 points to spare. This, say his coaches, is as it should be. "We don't even talk about losing," says Rick Sloan, who has coached O'Brien in the field events for the past six years. "People want him to get all excited about making the team, about getting that...
...Business School Professor W. Carl Kester noted that salaries which blow minds in academia are often par for the course in the world of finance...
Most conspicuous of the pollinators in crisis are honeybees, the pollinators par excellence among insects. Since being imported from Europe more than 375 years ago, they have spread rapidly throughout the New World. Honeybees typically pollinate 15% of the U.S.'s crops, but lately the bees have been hard hit. Already debilitated by a nasty mite infection, thousands of colonies were exterminated during last winter's unusually severe cold. During the honeybee heyday after World War II, the U.S. had nearly 6 million hives. Now there are less than half that many, and mites continue to plague the remaining colonies...