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...deep breath. After a brief but painful downturn marked by widespread layoffs, a morale-crushing bear market in stocks and the virtual shutdown of the travel industry post-Sept. 11, the rich smell of recovery is in the air. Even basset-faced Alan Greenspan has picked up the scent. "Recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way," the Fed chief told the Senate Banking Committee...
...scent of spice and the lure of easy money drew traders and settlers from across Europe, the Arab world, India, China, Thailand and Burma. Their diverse traditions still resonate in the heart of George Town's old city. The grand colonial architecture of City Hall, the court buildings and the Penang Museum and Art Gallery cohabits comfortably with ornate Hindu and incense-wreathed Buddhist temples, Chinese clan houses, Muslim mosques and serried rows of peeling and shuttered shophouses. Cultures collide at every intersection. A walk down Lebuh Chulia, a major thoroughfare, will have your mouth watering at the spicy aromas...
...recent strategy, shown effective for the first time at NIAID, may be able to thwart this evasive action. Known as "prime-boost," it gives the immune system a whiff of the virus' scent before hitting it with the actual vaccine. In Nabel's lab, that whiff consists of a snippet of DNA from HIV's outer coating--not enough to trigger a full immune response but, as his work was the first to show in animals, enough to put the system on alert. In the past this strategy hasn't worked in humans because our immune system, unlike those...
Designer Christian Astuguevieille, whose furniture is on display, has created a multisensual circuit around the museum: materials to touch can be discovered in drawers, sounds of splashing and joyful shouts filter through loudspeakers, the restaurant serves food cooked with textile-related plants, and the scent of flowers, licorice and turpentine wafts over paintings. There's even a whiff of chlorine to complete the experience...
...least two-thirds of the country from the Taliban?made bin Laden's demise seem imminent, even if the Pentagon could not say precisely where he was. With Taliban forces ditching their guns and switching sides by the thousands, American commandos spent last week picking up bin Laden's scent?and nudging the six-week conflict toward a decisive climax. The Taliban faced devastation in its southern strongholds, and that shrank bin Laden's theater of operation. Pashtun operatives showered Western and Pakistani intelligence agents with information about bin Laden's hideouts. Pakistani officials told TIME that U.S. forces, working...