Word: starks
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...this good news on the ARV front, however, is in stark contrast to the slower progress being made on an AIDS vaccine. "What we're seeing now with ARVs is the result of investments that were made 10 years ago," says Dr. Seth Berkley, president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a leading HIV vaccine developer. "Funding for vaccine research has always fallen far short of that devoted to drug development, and for a period, there was very little happening in the vaccine field. Had there been a sustained vaccine effort simultaneous with the drug effort, we probably...
...contrast seems stark. Tommy Franks, the Army general who as chief of Central Command scuttled Anthony Zinni's more robust war plan and agreed with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that invasion-lite was the way to go, got the Presidential Medal of Freedom. So did former CIA chief George ("Slam Dunk") Tenet and L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer, who as Iraqi viceroy fired the entire Iraqi army, a move now widely seen as laying the groundwork for a sustained insurgency...
...inside (how can you help but smile?).The separation of this exhibit into two rooms is excellent, helping to foster thought on the very same ideas as the art itself. In walking from room to room you must pass by three paintings, whose conventional form appears to stand in stark contrast to the multiples. Yet mysteriously the jars of honey or misfit toys featured in the “Multiple Strategies” exhibit seem no less “artistic” than the more traditionally acceptable oil paintings. The exhibit shows both the artists’ multiple strategies...
...expecting a moderate message on homosexual equality from its Anglican counteparts at their annual meeting in Tanzania this week - or even some kind of benign stalling action - it was sorely mistaken. The communique issued by the Communion's collected primates (regional archbishops) ended up presenting a fairly stark choice for more the liberal-minded Episcopalians: either back off on officiating at gay commitment ceremonies and ordaining gay clergy - fast - or be shunned by the Anglican Communion...
...more than a little persuasive. When an aide questions Leontes’ suspicions, he flies into a nervous rage and delivers Shakespeare’s famous speech of nothings: “Nor nothing have these nothings, if this be nothing.” It stands in stark opposition to Hermione’s graceful nobility...