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After the top two favorites? A pack of teams will likely end up jockeying for position in this wide-open, rough-and-tumble Ivy League race...
Hold it. Before the rapture of a computer-based utopia completely overtakes me, I must ask an important question: Why is Debbie spending her time writing to a stranger with whom she has no connection whatsoever? Is life that rough at the University of Wisconsin? Possibly. But the more likely reason, no doubt, is the addictive quality of e-mail...
...Harvard researcher, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Ronald C. Desrosiers, has been trying to develop such an animal model in monkeys with SIV, a rough equivalent of HIV in the animals. Desrosiers has been able to delete certain portions of SIV to create a live but weakened form of the virus which won't cause disease. Despite initial success with the strategy, later results have been disappointing...
During the cold war, you may have violently disagreed about exactly where and how the U.S. should resist communism, but you shared the rough consensus that resistance and involvement were necessary. The Soviets had nukes, they and their allies fought our influence everywhere, and you worried about the prospect of a lot of countries going communist. Maybe you thought it wouldn't matter here and there, but if it happened in too many places, there would go ! the global neighborhood; we would end up with a world in which the U.S. could hardly feel safe, could hardly be itself...
...well, the laughing will be added later. Much will be subtracted too: a rough cut of the show is a hefty six minutes long. All in all, David is happy. "It was a tougher show than usual," he says. "But it all seemed to work." When the show airs a week from Thursday, viewers can decide for themselves whether he's right...