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...focus today is the pesky reservoir of virus that camouflages itself from both the body's immune system and any drugs you throw at it. Using clever mathematical models, Ho has reduced HIV's assault on the immune system to a relatively simple math problem. If the virus in the reservoir replicates at a certain rate, and if various drugs slow down this replication at measurable rates, then a drug regimen that outpaces HIV's reproduction could, in theory, permanently shut the virus down...
Working with a four-drug combination that is 20% more potent than today's cocktails, Ho has already shown that it is possible to shrink the reservoir faster than with current regimens. Virus, beware...
Last week the conversation between the sides was drowned out by the sound of rushing water, after some residents forced open one of the reservoir's headgates. Local officials declined to stop the outlaws, possibly because they call them neighbors. "It just appears to me that they are trying to save their lives," said Klamath County sheriff Tim Evinger. Though the fish had no statement, of course, their appointed spokesman, the Bureau of Reclamation's Jeff McCracken, did claim to understand the farmers "frustration." One senses an understatement here. Try rage...
DIRTY WATER Each year animal and human feces contaminate pools, rivers, even fountains with Giardia, shigella and more. Part of Colorado's Aurora Reservoir was closed last week because of E. coli...
...Apart from its annual $500 million investment on training and education programs worldwide, GE's strong reservoir of talent is largely due to Welch's focus on his employees...