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Ferris' first book, Then We Came to the End, published in 2007, was a knockout - a comic novel set in an office and told in the first person plural by a watercooler Greek chorus. That device was either a lucky stunt or a carefully calibrated masterstroke. Either way, a sophomore slump wouldn't have been surprising. Even Zadie Smith had The Autograph Man. But Ferris - who's a year older than Smith and approximately as good-looking - has gone the other...
...neither did anyone expect such a stunning defeat, and the scientific community is still struggling to recover from it. "We are still a long ways away from having an effective HIV vaccine that physicians can reach into the cabinet and pull out in a vial and inject into a person," says Dr. Bruce Walker, an HIV expert at Harvard Medical School. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...smiles haven't come easily to him of late. In the 1990s, he and ADARC established themselves as leaders in the AIDS field by pioneering the early use of the antiretroviral (ARV) cocktails that have reduced the death rate from AIDS (for which Ho was named TIME's Person of the Year in 1996). But in recent years, the center has suffered a series of setbacks, including a scientific paper that required a partial retraction, and the departure of key scientists. These challenges have some in the field wondering whether ADARC - and its golden-boy director - are on the verge...
...earned such laurels for its ARV triumph - began to suffer a scientific slump and lack of direction, according to those who left in the early 2000s. Some blame Ho's management style, which, they say, changed in the aftermath of media attention that came with his recognition as Person of the Year. They describe a highly competitive atmosphere in which members scrambled to claim key projects and kept certain studies under wraps out of fear that colleagues would poach their ideas. Frustrated, several high-level faculty members, none of whom agreed to be quoted by name, decamped. (Watch TIME...
...state, up to 26 weeks of benefits, with the possibility of a 13-week extension. Following extensions passed under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, jobless benefits can now run as long as 99 weeks - nearly two years. During the 1982-83 recession, the longest time a person could collect benefits was about 55 weeks.(See how Americans are spending...