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...fact that physicians are now doing this gives it an added level of credibility." Dr. David Kaplan, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, shares her concern: "It's infuriating not to give kids information so that they can protect themselves...
...more on sex education in schools, tune in to MTV on Oct. 3 at 10 p.m. E.T. for "Protect Yourself: Sex in the Classroom," part of the network's FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS: PROTECT YOURSELF campaign, a yearlong initiative dedicated to in-forming the audience on issues of sexual health...
AIDS MYSTERY One of the great mysteries about AIDS is why some people (about 1% or 2%) who get infected with the virus never develop the disease. For more than 15 years, scientists have searched for the chemical factors that protect these so-called long-term nonprogressors, and now a team of researchers including Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, think they have found them. Using new protein-chip technology, they have identified three proteins--alpha-defensins 1, 2 and 3--that are present in nonprogressors but not in AIDS patients. The defensins, which...
...trying to protect its assets, the KMT can hardly claim to hold the moral high ground. The origin of its business empire traces to the end of World War II, when Kuomintang troops, then battling communist rebels for control of the Mainland, landed in Taiwan and grabbed hundreds of properties and buildings from the defeated Japanese. After being routed by Mao's troops in 1949, the Kuomintang fled to Taiwan and established its government in exile, setting the stage for what one local newspaper described as a "five-decade looting spree", in which the party found it difficult to distinguish...
...Special Forces soldiers assigned to protect president Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan have learned to trust no one. That lesson was made abundantly clear when a gunman dressed as a soldier in the newly formed Afghan army attempted to assassinate their charge in early September. It?s not hard to imagine how a recent altercation between Special Forces and Afghan government troops nearly erupted into a bloody melee inside the Presidential Palace grounds - a confrontation that says a lot about the future of the American presence in Afghanistan...