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...that Fauci canceled last week was already a slimmed down version of the original 8,500-person study that government health officials had planned - until the Merck vaccine failed last fall. In a trial of 3,000 volunteers, Merck's vaccine appeared to increase risk of HIV infection, a phenomenon that researchers later attributed to the vaccine's delivery system - pieces of HIV were piggybacked onto a common cold virus and ferried to the body's immune cells. It turned out that the people who received the vaccine and who ended up with the highest rates of HIV infection following...
...What do you think of the phenomenon of the candidates themselves, the newsmakers themselves, joining in the joke...
...concept of the "midnight movie" began to change from a Rocky Horror Picture Show cult phenomenon into a routine promotional gimmick in May 1999, when the long-awaited Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace premiered one minute after midnight to hordes of fans who had waited days in line for the opportunity to get a first look. Those showings grossed $7 million. Episode II grossed $6.2 million during its opening midnight screenings and Episode III scored an astounding $16.5 million. The final Lord of the Rings movie, The Return of the King earned $8 million at midnight screenings. Each...
...became apparent [to the Inspector General's office] that closer scrutiny of this phenomenon was long overdue. There were plenty of signs that ValuJet was cursed by its own success, its growth straining its management and organizational structure...
...America, the world's only coca plant producer. And finally, Anthony notes, it's a matter of culture: the U.S. is home to a huge baby boomer population that came of age when experimenting with drugs was a part of the social fabric. "It became a more mass-population phenomenon during a period when there were a large number of young people who were in the process of creating a culture of their own," Anthony says...