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...work, after all, is just beginning. Ho's team in New York City has analyzed the first material from the blood samples. "It looks really good," says Ho, visibly brightening at the prospect of finally starting up his vaccine studies. "Any one of the sites in Yunnan would work well for a vaccine trial." Starting those trials will mean China is that much closer to controlling HIV and slowing the spread of those earthen graves of family members claimed by AIDS...
...Authorities did their best to reassure the public, but on Thursday a fresh power cut caused by a faulty cable struck the Acropolis and two neighboring districts for an hour. Pantelis Kapros, president of the Greek Energy Regulatory Authority, reminded everyone that in 2001 his organization had raised the prospect of a blackout just before the August Olympic Games. "Sadly, that has been confirmed," he said in a local radio interview. But Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who heads the Athens organizing committee, insisted "such an incident cannot affect the Games. All our venues have uninterrupted power supply systems." So at least...
...Perhaps it was the prospect of a much-needed influx of foreign currency that changed the authorities' minds. "At first they wanted an awful lot of money," says Van der Bijl. But he was ultimately able to buy another 300 or so pictures at an acceptable price. Worried that permission to export them might be withdrawn at the last minute, he carted about 85 of them with him on the plane to Holland...
...runner-up became Vice President. That created an anomalous situation in which Jefferson, his party's presumed presidential nominee, tied with Aaron Burr, its presumed vice presidential nominee. It took 36 rounds of voting in the House to decide the election in Jefferson's favor. Faced with the prospect of Burr as President, a man he considered unscrupulous, Hamilton not only opted for Jefferson as the lesser of two evils but also was forced into his most measured assessment of the man. Hamilton said he had long suspected that as President, Jefferson would develop a keen taste for the federal...
...prospect of having data from all clinical trials readily available is exciting, says Dr. Cary Gross of Yale: "This has the potential to dramatically change how medicine is practiced." But just as compelling is the ethical argument. "When people enroll in a study, they are told that this is going to benefit science," says Gross. "For trials results to then be shelved is a real betrayal of people who have trusted researchers with their lives." The pharmaceutical industry would be well advised to see it that way too. --By David Bjerklie