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...Geithner provides answers to these questions in his rollout later this week, he may start to turn the corner on public skepticism toward him, the bank plan and the government's recovery efforts. He might even spark a stock-market rally. But the banking industry's hopes are more modest: "As long as he comes out with details on the public-private investment fund, then it's not a miss," says Talbott. If he doesn't, he'll have an even bigger mess on his hands. Alabama Senator Richard Shelby - the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee - Senator John...
...This was the approach used by VaxGen's AIDSVax, the only AIDS vaccine candidate that has so far made it to Phase III testing, the final stage before clinical approval. That vaccine was designed to spark an immune response to a surface protein called gp120. But results of that trial showed in 2003 that the vaccine was insufficiently effective. To date, dozens of possible AIDS vaccines have been tested, and none seem especially promising...
...first three innings. The rookie worked out of a jam in the second, but failed to silence the Blazer offense.Harvard tried to respond behind RBI singles and two-hit days from senior Jon Roberts and sophomore Dillon O’Neill, but the Crimson was unable to spark a comeback against UAB ace Kyle Roberson (2-2). A Douglas homerun brought Harvard within 9-3 in the eighth, but the visitors’ relief pitching stumbled, as sophomore Taylor Meehan yielded two earned runs in the bottom half of the inning.UAB 13, HARVARD 7In Saturday’s evening game...
...gets out of hand of police, paramilitary [troops], only then the army is deployed," Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, the military's chief spokesman, told the Associated Press. The government says that a gathering of tens of thousands of protesters outside its main official buildings could paralyze the government or spark riots that could derail the fragile political system. There are also claims of terrorist threats. The protesting lawyers, who have called for a prolonged sit-in in the capital until their demands are met, insist theirs is a peaceful movement that has faced violence but never backed it. They have...
...Last June's health-care summit helped spark the closed-door gatherings, which at first involved just six members: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana and the committee's top Republican, Charles Grassley of Iowa; Ted Kennedy and the HELP Committee's top Republican, Mike Enzi of Wyoming; and Senators Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Orrin Hatch of Utah, the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Health Care. In recent months Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, a top HELP Committee Democrat, was added as Kennedy's understudy as the Massachusetts Democrat...