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...major problem with HIV is that it mutates in the body very quickly, so the immune system doesn't always recognize the virus as something it's encountered before. This is a stumbling block for vaccinemakers, but it's also the reason so few people are able to control an HIV infection naturally, like the six people studied in Nussenzweig's lab. Now, understanding this process could be key to the next vaccines. "It's just that the antibodies are too late," Nussenzweig says, referring to the typical immune response. "The antibody is always chasing the virus around...
...health-care crisis - if only they could get the key players on Capitol Hill to give their radical plan a hearing. "There's a real opportunity for a philosophical truce here that you didn't have in 1993," the last time Washington attempted to overhaul the health-care system, says Wyden. "Republicans, who didn't accept the idea of coverage for everybody in 1993, have moved. Democrats have also moved. There's much more acceptance of giving a wide berth to the private sector...
...Maybe so, but the question that Wyden and Cooper's plan raises is whether either side is really willing to completely scrap the current system, under which most people get coverage from their employers. That arrangement is more a historical accident than an efficient design, a legacy of World War II-era wage and price controls, when companies began offering health insurance as a way of attracting skilled workers. Over the years, however, much has changed. Few workers spend their entire careers working for one company anymore, and businesses are staggering under the burden of health-care costs, which have...
...Still, Wyden and Cooper's plan is considered a long shot. The political wisdom in Washington suggests that for any proposal to actually stand a chance, it would have to build on the existing employer-based system. For much the same reason, few believe that "single payer" health care - a government-financed system similar to Medicare - will be given any serious consideration. As one Administration official put it in describing the Wyden plan, "A lot of people think this is where the system should be 20 years from now, but no one sees how it can be there two years...
...tradition of online literature in China, Hou and other writers say, goes back to the mid-'90s, when the bulletin-board system, or BBS, first appeared on the Chinese Internet as a platform to share opinions and in many cases literary creations. "I still recall my astonishment when I read my first online novel some 15 years ago on a BBS," says Zhang Kangkang, a renowned novelist and vice chairwoman of the Chinese Writers Association. "It was then that I realized how serious and creative the so-called online literature can be." Although largely substituted now by social-networking sites...