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This knowledge could one day help doctors better design drug therapies by allowing them to sequence patients’ viruses and predict which drugs the HIV strain would be the most likely to become resistant to in advance, according to Zhang. Such an application could make treatments much more cost-effective, she added...
Much to the disappointment of pet lovers, the celebrated ability of animals to predict quakes before they happen is not all it's said to be. It's true that animals are more sensitive to shaking than humans are, so they may feel a tremor a few seconds before we do. But you need the right animal in the right spot at just the right moment, and even then, that detection doesn't buy you much extra time. Nonetheless, Blanpied says, the research goes...
...enforce the gun ban, 3,500 mobile police checkpoints have been set up nationwide, and violators face jail terms of up to six years if convicted, and disqualification from holding public office. It is, of course, too early to predict whether the measures will be effective. But a cartoon in the Philippine Daily Inquirer this week succintly captured the public mood, depicting the barrel of a handgun as two fingers - crossed. And as security analyst Pete Troilo at risk consultancy Pacific Strategies & Assessments points out, "Innately resilient Filipinos and hardened expatriates ... recognize that despite the violence that will definitely accompany...
...make him a happy person." It seems to be doing just that. "I love the game. I love to compete," Carlsen says. Asked how long he will continue to enjoy chess and where the game will take him, Carlsen pauses to ponder the variables. "It's too difficult to predict," he concludes. So far, at least, he's been making all the right moves...
...truth is, even if the North does come back to talk, and even if it accepts the nukes-first sequencing demanded by the U.S. and its allies, everyone has been down this road so often before that few are willing to predict what happens after that. Suh Jae Jean, president of the influential Korea Institute for National Unification government think tank in Seoul, believes that this time the North will do a credible deal on its nuclear program. "But," he adds, "I know I'm about the only optimist left standing these days." In Washington and Seoul, not to mention...