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Despite the guarded optimism of researchers, AIDS activists in the U.S. and Europe resent what they refer to as the "hype" surrounding the trial's results, which they think continues to raise questions - unnecessarily - about its significance. But specialists like Frahm say that was bound to happen. Against the relentless silence in the field of AIDS-vaccine research, even the tiniest signal from a lone Thai trial can sound like a fog horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The AIDS Vaccine: Modest Results, but a Sign of Hope | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...reality the freshmen are Hasty Pudding punches initiates, or “neophytes” as the club likes to refer to them.  FlyBy wasn't lucky enough to be one of them, but those who made the cut received an email shortly before midnight on Tuesday that asked them to pretend to be John Harvard bodyguards from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. today, in one-hour shifts...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg | Title: Hasty Pudding Shields John Harvard from Dangerous Tourists | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

Witty comments aside, Khazei provided those in attendance with an extensive overview of his campaign platform, a platform that he has come to refer to as “Big Citizenship.” Khazei noted that “for too many people, the American dream has become a dream deferred,” and said that community service is the mechanism by which America could recreate itself as a land of opportunity...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Democratic Senate Candidate Speaks in Adams House | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...particular, is regarded as a platform to jumpstart ventures that could dominate China's post-crisis economic environment, in which heavy industry and manufacturing is supposed to take a back seat to higher "value-added" and consumer-focused businesses. It is no coincidence that some in local media grandly refer to "the search for the next Microsoft" in reports about the new board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China's Nasdaq Is No GEM | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...vote, a record result for the party, and their leader, Guido Westerwelle, is likely to become the next Foreign Minister. His campaign focused on how to revive Germany's economy, and he was vague about broader European issues. In an interview with TIME before the election, Westerwelle didn't refer directly to France but talked about the critical importance of the E.U. as a political entity, not just an economic one. "If Europe hadn't achieved anything other than peace for this [postwar] period, it would already have been worthwhile," he said. But the E.U. could do more to improve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can France and Germany Fall in Love Again? | 9/26/2009 | See Source »

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