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...that plays a role in a disease's development. C-Sixty is assembling libraries of new buckyball-based molecules that it will test for potential therapeutic value. Early next year, it will conduct human trials of fullerene-based drugs for HIV and Lou Gehrig's disease. With about one-tenth the toxicity of the current HIV drug cocktails, the company's molecule targets new strains of the constantly mutating virus that are no longer susceptible to treatment. In the case of Lou Gehrig's disease, a degenerative nerve illness, the drug prevents or repairs neurological damage. C-Sixty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nanotechnology: Very small Business | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

Senior wideout Carl Morris had 11 catches for 210 yards and senior quarterback Neil Rose was a model of efficiency before leaving the game after sustaining a tough hit in the third quarter. The pair led Harvard to its tenth straight win, dating back to last season...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Right Where They Left Off: Football Wins Opener, Stretches Unbeaten Streak to 10 | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

Despite posting the lowest graduation rate, faculty resources rank, admissions rate, and alumni giving percentage, Yale tied Harvard for second on the strength of its per-student spending, placing second nationally. Harvard ranked tenth and Princeton was number...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: U.S. News Puts Harvard Second | 9/17/2002 | See Source »

...rightfully insists that it works hard to provide cocaleros with alternative crops like bananas and coffee. But the depressed markets for those goods mean farmers earn sometimes as little as one-tenth of what they would with coca, which produces three to four harvests a year. Of course, coca farming is not--as Morales and the growers would have it--an entirely innocuous affair. Even though the cocaleros don't turn coca leaves into cocaine--that's done by the drug cartels--they know that the bulk of the crop goes not toward its traditional uses as an anesthetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking the Side of The Coca Farmer | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...Palestinian street, the response was predictable outrage. Israeli sources estimate more than 100,000 people - one-tenth of the city's population - attended the funeral for Shehade and the other victims. And their demand was simple: revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Israel's Air Strike Worries the U.S. | 7/23/2002 | See Source »

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