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...turned out that among a select cohort of American military personnel who had been followed over decades, the roughly 1,200 carriers of the trait, all of whom were African-American, were 40% more likely after adjustments to be infected with HIV than noncarriers. From that sample, Weiss and his colleagues extrapolated the infection risk attributable to the gene variant in Africa, where a 40% increased susceptibility to infection translates to about 11% of all infections...
...readers will be installed in all FAS residential facilities and select other campus buildings. Lichten declined to comment on the cost of the upgrade but said that it is "certainly not a trivial undertaking...
...contemporary hits like The Lion King and Pixar's Finding Nemo - didn't convince the Academy that those animated films deserved to be considered alongside live-action ones. That's because animated features enjoy scant support from the largest branch of the 6,000 film-industry pros who select the Best Picture candidates every year: actors. "Actors tend to vote for live-action performances," says Variety columnist Anne Thompson. "Lord of the Rings got to Best Picture without any heavily praised performances, but that's very unusual...
...illiterate masses - as he himself puts it - "so that they don't keep on cutting off their own feet." Such a tone is fitting for a man who styles himself the redeemer of his country. "You can judge the people of a nation by the type of leaders they select," he concludes. Most Bangladeshis are wondering when they'll really get that chance...
...brook, "to wash away troubles," he explains as he passes through the second set of doors leading to the check-in kiosks. "Our customers find this sometimes more convenient than waiting in line at the desk," says McGuinness as he taps on the screen to demonstrate how you can select the location of your room. The actual check-in desk, called the Aloha desk, to the left, is circular--there's no imposing, long granite counter. "We wanted to put the desk staff in the middle of the room," McGuinness says as he backs up against the nearest wall...