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...Taiwan in 1979, the incident seemed trivial. But China literally went ballistic. In the midst of Lee's campaign for re-election, the People's Republic, which regards Taiwan as a "renegade province," staged ominous military exercises in the narrow waterway separating the island from the mainland, firing test missiles. Washington responded by dispatching two carrier battle groups to the region, and the world trembled at the possibility of armed conflict between the great powers...
...threading, the cameras can be very compact. They take pictures in three sizes and replace negatives with a single contact sheet that displays thumbnail images of an entire roll at a glance. So I decided to put three brand-new models from Canon, Konica and Minolta to the test. My bar: they had to be sleek and light and come with a 2X zoom...
What's particularly worrisome about Ehrlichiosis is that it's not easy to spot. There's no telltale rash, as occurs in Lyme disease. Nor is there an easy test for it. Doctors must rely on such circumstantial evidence as a low level of white blood cells and abnormal spots on those cells. And an antibiotic commonly prescribed for Lyme disease--amoxicillin--is useless for treating Ehrlichiosis. Fortunately, there's another drug, doxycycline, that does the trick. Left untreated, however, severe cases of the infection can kill in a few days...
...research on Alzheimer's. I know all too well that there are millions of people desperate for news of a treatment or a cure for this terrible disease. I also know that it can take five years or more for basic research--which is to say, experiments performed in test tubes or on laboratory animals--to be turned into safe and effective drugs. And that's only if there are no major setbacks or surprises. More often than not, these big advances in basic research don't go anywhere at all. So when I read a report in the journal...
...this remains to be discovered. The most important thing to take away from this research news is that it's a "proof of concept," as scientists call it. Before now, they weren't sure they could dissolve amyloid plaques outside a test tube. Now they know they can. Even if vaccination turns out not to be the best route, researchers have a direction in which to concentrate their efforts. And sometimes in science, that's all you need...