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...Another Silent Killer MOZAMBIQUE While George W. Bush promoted a $15 billion U.S. program to fight AIDS in Africa, scientists prepared to take a major step toward one of medicine's Holy Grails: a malaria vaccine. This week, at a clinic in the town of Saude Manhiça, north of the capital, Maputo, experts from an international public-private partnership will kick off a large-scale clinical trial - involving 2,000 children, ages 1 to 4 - to test a GlaxoSmithKline drug called RTS,S/ASO2A. It is the most advanced of the 80 malaria-vaccine candidates now in development...
...suffered casualties, and in the aftermath its citizens are treated differently." U.S. officials insist the tribunals are much better than the European perception. "There will be a presumption of innocence, a requirement of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and no adverse inference if a defendant decides to remain silent," says Major John Smith, an attorney in the Office of Military Commissions. If the death penalty is to be imposed, seven out of seven judges will have to agree. Nevertheless, a senior U.S. official says, "there's a good deal of concern at the State Department" about rising British bad feeling...
...soon after this elderly man was done speaking and a few ambulances were dispatched to resuscitate the chosen few who couldn’t handle the heat, a rush of people flowed from the massive green. Far from a silent, self-reflective end to a mass, the “Croats” (really, they are Bosnians per their nationality, though they call themselves Croats) began singing loud Catholic folk music, waving red-and-white checkerboard flags, wearing shirts of the same colors, passing close to Serb military men who didn’t look at all amused by these...
...younger generation of funeral directors is particularly eager to try out fresh ideas. When Tyler Cassity, 33, took over a 64-acre Los Angeles cemetery that is the resting ground of silent-film star Rudolph Valentino and mobster Bugsy Siegel, it had crumbled into disrepair. Now the site, renamed Hollywood Forever, is known for producing short documentaries about the deceased. In the on-site theater mourners can view the film in "kind of a premiere," says Cassity. The films are also made available on the Internet and as DVD keepsakes. "We live in a culture here in L.A. that believes...
...parent took the trouble to send us a letter, but we’re assuming that there were others offended by it as well—the silent majority, as it were,” Queen said. “Since we have 1000 high school students attending, the largest constituency of the Summer School, we agree with the parents...