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...speed things up is to toss out the eggs and grow the viruses in human cells. Any virus that can infect humans will, by definition, grow easily in human-cell cultures, so that step could cut the incubation time to three months. Chiron, one of the world's leading manufacturers of the egg-dependent flu vaccine, is testing its first cell-culture technique, which it plans to apply to seasonal and pandemic flu vaccines. The Department of Health and Human Services last spring awarded a $97 million contract to Sanofi-Aventis, a Paris-based drug company, to develop avian...
...offensive glass and Harvard attacked the basket with much more consistency. Freshman Evan Harris put up 10 hard-fought points against a bruising SMU frontcourt and Stehle earned six of his team-high nine rebounds on the offensive end. But Harvard could never quite match SMU’s speed and athleticism, a mismatch compounded by the Crimson’s inability to hit from beyond the arc. Harvard shot just 1-of-11 from the three-point line in the second half and was just 30.4 percent from the floor on the game, while SMU finished with...
...Melinda focused their international giving on population control and reproductive health. But soon they learned that better health leads to smaller populations. In 1998, Bill Sr. came across a progress report from the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a small nonprofit organization, based in New York City, working to speed the search for a vaccine. In the margins, he wrote a note to Bill and Melinda: "I don't know what we can do about this. But if this isn't what philanthropy is for, I don't know what is." Bill sent back a one-word reply: "Agreed...
CLINTON Until he revs 'em up, right, and then it was--well, we were practically levitating across the water at the speed of sound...
...gate near Canaday fills up with six inches of rainwater just a little slower than Yale Sociology majors pass out of their requirements. Lucky thing there’s a huge duct nearby that vents dry, vaguely Kinkos-scented air. A little asphalt would go a long way.Nine: Speed the trip to Mem. Hall 203. The door on the elevator traversing the shaft between the basement and second floor of Memorial Hall does its best Star Wars trash-compactor impression every time you push “2.” The door closes so slowly that most students save...