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...vaccine arm and 74 in the control group becoming infected with HIV. These are the results that were announced in September. But because this particular vaccine comprised two older vaccines that were given in six doses over a six-month period - in what is referred to as a prime and boost regimen, in which the early shots prime the immune system to fend off HIV and the follow-up shots boost the body's immunity - some volunteers became infected with HIV before receiving all six shots, rendering them ineligible to complete the study. Had the study been designed to license...
...does America's sexiest statesman stack up? At No. 15, Obama is nowhere near as hot as Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the world's No. 1 hottest leader. And he just barely clocked in as sexier than Russian heartthrob Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who failed to break into the top 10 despite many, many pleas for attention. But supporters of a peaceful, nuclear-free future take heart: North Korea's Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, came in dead last, at a homely No. 172. (See TIME's photo-essay "Vladimir Putin: Action Figure...
...Wrote an enthusiastic commenter: "Obama needs to move up, [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad needs to move down, [Uruguayan President] Tabaré Vázquez definitely needs to move way, way down, [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu is undressing me with his eyes ... Maybe Netanyahu should move...
...funny thing - literally - is happening in prime time. Sitcoms don't have the ratings or reach Seinfeld did, and probably no single one will again. But collectively, TV sitcoms are better and more diverse than they have been in years. Any roundup of the best new TV shows of 2009 would be mostly, if not entirely, comedies. And they're expanding the definition of what sitcoms can be: musical, complex, more than a half-hour long and sometimes even dead serious...
...groundbreaking trial almost never saw the light of day. NIAID inherited it from the Department of Defense in 2003, by which time 1,000 volunteers had already been enrolled. Fauci says he was loath to pull the rug out, despite having rejected a trial for a similar pair of prime-and-boost vaccines that came through the institute around the same time. "I was hoping when I made the decision to allow this trial to go ahead that we would at least learn something from it," says Fauci. "Guess what? We are." Maybe more than anyone could have anticipated...