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...seems that a quarter century of AIDS education, public health campaigns and a continuous "mainstreaming" of HIV-positive people in the U.S. and Europe have done little to sort out the public's confusion. The problem may be that while advances in treatment and prevention have fueled a misguided sense of complacency about the disease, personal prejudices have kept the stigma and shame about HIV alive. "We may have overeducated the public about the effectiveness of treatment and the availability of treatment," says Nancy Mahon, executive director of the MAC AIDS Fund. "Understanding this is important to change the pace...
...take more than a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars in development costs for a company to market an effective drug from natural resources, and the big scores are rare. But they do happen. As many as a quarter of all prescription drugs today are linked to the kinds of indigenous discoveries that make Brazilian catuaba bark a rain-forest version of Viagra for the herbal-supplement crowd. Two of Eli Lilly's more successful cancer drugs, Velban and Oncovin, were developed from Madagascar's rosy periwinkle plant, found through a shaman some 40 years ago. In the 1990s...
...American economy. A new report from the Institute for International Education found that tuition and expenses of international students alone contributes an estimated $14.5 billion to U.S. GDP, and international education is America’s fifth largest export. In addition, over the last 15 years, one quarter of U.S. venture-backed public companies—which generate about $130 billion in annual revenue in addition to employing thousands of Americans—were founded by foreign nationals. The impact of foreign workers is particularly pronounced in high-tech industries; two-thirds of electrical engineering and one-half of computer...
...typical Australian" is not, as foreigners once thought, a bushman. He is a slightly worried guy with a tan, a bald spot, a mortgage, a mower and two kids, whose Australian dream is a double-front brick bungalow on a quarter-acre lot in the suburbs less than 30 minutes' drive from the nearest beach, with two other nice, two-kid, one-PC families on either side...
...almost 28 minutes on Saturday, the Harvard football team looked like it was about to turn in its first scoreless half of the season. With just over two minutes to play in the second quarter and the Crimson ready to start a drive from its own 12-yard line, two zeros sat idly on the scoreboard at Harvard Stadium. Only one had come close to changing earlier in the half—and only once—when a Penn field goal on the team’s second drive of the game bounced off the right post.Not content...