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...potential need for additional boosters, its efficacy in higher-risk populations like intravenous drug users and, most crucially, whether it might work on other subtypes of the virus. "The vaccine was tested in Thailand against types of HIV that circulate in Thailand," Kim says, pointing out that a different strain of the virus causes high infection rates in Africa...
...novelist changes his tone. He gives up, tells the audience, the whole species, to “go enhance.” But he issues a warning: “We’ll never feel enhanced… When fiction goes real, reality will need a more resistant strain of fiction.”This is why Powers, among his likeminded contemporaries, is worth reading. Time and time again, he provides us with more and more resistant strains of fiction. The humanities, resisting science, seem to want to hold it back so that the old truths hold. Powers...
...Z32” on Sunday, a perplexed audience waited in quiet anticipation for the director to approach the Harvard Film Archive podium. The group primarily consisted of salt-and-pepper heads and a handful of students with previous ties to the documentary’s subject: the extensive moral strain on an Israeli soldier after his involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the film did not suggest the outrage one would expect; it instead refused to convey a clear sense of Mograbi’s attitude toward the conflict, whether he found the soldier’s war crimes...
...have six guys who can play at any moment,” Iannuzzi said. “It’s probably a strain on the coaches in terms of who’s going to go in. But for the players it’s great because we get to have fresh legs...
Banking-industry consultant Bert Ely says he was never a big fan of TARP. But now that it is in place, he thinks there are benefits to keeping it going. The biggest could be to encourage stronger banks to buy up failing financial firms that continue to be a strain on the system. "To me that seems to be a legitimate use of TARP funds," says Ely. "There are still a lot of weak banks out there...