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...than the sandy 28-mile-long sliver of land known as the Gaza Strip. Its cities are a chaotic maze of dusty alleyways lined by warrens of crumbling buildings that each seem indistinguishable from the next. The 1.4 million people who live there make it the most densely populated patch of land on earth. At times, the streets and souks can become a suffocating crush of human congestion. And the task of finding a lost soul is made more hazardous by the long-held air of suspicion and gangs of gunmen ready to open fire on outsiders who tread...
...want it and not going through the painful procedure of having blood drawn and then waiting days to weeks for an answer,” Lieber says.And although he says the innovation may be far off, Lieber even imagines that the technology could be used in a transdermal patch, giving patients real-time updates on their health as they go about their daily lives.BREATHING EASYIn findings published in the March 16 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, a team of Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers discovered the cause of asthma, paving the way for better treatment and possibly...
...weather is usually fair and mild with intermittent patches of gorgeousness and a lovely breeze; the Mediterranean Mistral here is more a whisper than a roar. For a break from the films, take lunch al fresco at a café across from the Palais and gaze at the beautiful people walking by; Cannes at Festival time has the world's densest patch of pulchritude. Or, if you want to run up a bill higher than the French national debt, sip a kir on the terrace of the criminally posh Majestic Hotel and watch the glitterati glide past; many of them...
...things that distinguishes our vaccine from the others,” Lemere said. “Typically when you immunize through the nose, you get more of an anti-inflammatory response.” “We’re working on a skin patch type of vaccine as well,” Lemere added. While the spray would be “most effective at prevention,” Lemere said, one of the key features of the vaccine is that it “will probably also have very good effects at stopping the progression...
...senior drilling inspector at the Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site, Rufus Moore usually pays scant attention to the antinuclear protesters who often appear at the perimeter of the top-secret patch of desert 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The 1,350-sq.-mi. site in the Nellis Range has absorbed hundreds of underground blasts as the U.S. has fine-tuned its nuclear arsenal. For Moore, 54, a cigar-chomping veteran of hundreds of such tests, nuclear deterrence and superpower peace depend on the results. "The minute we stop testing, we're in trouble," he says...