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...growing part in the competition. Viewers from across Europe are allowed to phone or text in their rankings of the contestants, with the proviso that a country's voters cannot vote for their own country's representative. Yet this has led controversial bloc voting in an effort to prevent others from winning. Says Alexander Panaiotov, a Russian pop star: "It's the biggest musical event of the year. Of course it's politicized." A case in point, he says, is Russia and Ukraine. "Russia doesn't care if, say, Bosnia wins, but if Ukraine wins, it's a scandal." Ukraine...
...debt in countries without the American tax base and huge GDP has increased exponentially. It is even becoming an issue for large and more stable countries including the U.K. The British government may put some of its most valuable and well-known assets up for sale in order to prevent further increases in the national deficit. (See pictures of the snow crippling London...
...very small fraction of people infected with HIV, the body's immune response is able to control the virus and prevent it from progressing to full-blown AIDS. Rockefeller scientists found six such people with high levels of the antibodies that inhibit HIV proliferation and keep it from invading new cells. Taking blood samples from these special few, the researchers isolated the antibodies and set about discovering how they work...
...antibodies are there to begin with" - introduced via vaccine, for example - "they can prevent the infection," says Nussenzweig. "I think they could provide high-grade immunity if they were present in high-enough quantities before infection - but they'd have to be there beforehand...
...squad lost to both No. 13 Hartwick (14-6, 1-0 CWPA) and the New York Athletic Club (NYAC) on Saturday. The Crimson (4-6, 0-1 CWPA) dropped a shootout to NYAC, losing 17-16 in the non-NCAA match. Earlier in the day, Harvard could not prevent the Hawks’ offensive attack, suffering a 16-10 loss.“I feel like we have some things that we need to work on as a team as to how we handle adversity,” MacLaughlin said.The Crimson was missing freshman center and offensive contributor Devan Kennifer...