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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...baffled as to why the two seemingly ineffective vaccines appeared to work together. Another mystery was that the people who became infected with HIV developed roughly the same amount of virus in their blood whether they got the vaccine or the placebo. Typically a protective vaccine would lower a patient's so-called viral load, a criterion that physicians use as the main indicator of HIV infection. The outcome of the trial of RV144 suggests that scientists do not fully understand what constitutes a successful immune response to the AIDS virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS-Vaccine Trial Raises Hopes — and Questions | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...being sued. Tests should be run solely to help with diagnosis and treatment and not to keep lawyers off practitioners' backs. Queries by the doctors to health schemes should be handled by medical professionals and not operatives with only one main aim: to save money rather than help the patient. Anton van Eeden, PHILIPSTOWN, SOUTH AFRICA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vegas or Bust? | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...only goal of the first period standstill. “We battled a team that sat in and defended with a lot of numbers,” Harvard coach Jamie Clark said. “It took us a lot of time to break them down, but we were patient and it paid off.” The real reward for the Crimson came after Akpan’s goal. Harvard continued to wear down its Connecticut opponent, and unleashed a torrent of offensive fury following the half. “The second 45 minutes we clearly were the better...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Win Streak Rolls on for Dominant Crimson Squad | 9/20/2009 | See Source »

...There is something strangely poetic about “Imperial.” The passion with which Vollmann overflows for his subject infects the (patient) reader. The seventh reiteration of some Imperial resident’s saying “I can’t help believing in people” is infinitely more touching than the sixth. “The Desert Disappears. Water is Here”—which originally appeared in a headline of a newspaper from which Vollmann quotes—is more heartbreakingly ironic and more beautiful for its rhythmic prose each time...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Topography of a Desert Empire | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...Investment,” a course he has taught before as an associate professor at Harvard. Shankar G. Ramaswamy ’11, who is taking the class this semester, described Melitz as “energetic” as well as “very accessible and patient.” Ramaswamy said that Melitz has given the course a strong “global perspective” and has “laid the foundation for some of the more specific models” that will be used later in the semester. Melitz has written two papers with...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Econ Prof. Returns After Two Years | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

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