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...crucial tweak in design; it allows the cocaine vaccine to sidestep the potential viral syndrome associated with other vaccines, such as Cytos's experimental anti-nicotine vaccine, which is delivered via virus, Kosten says. And because cocaine addiction is most severe in Western countries where cholera is not a threat and where the cholera vaccine is not widely administered, most people do not yet have natural immunity. "Most Americans don't have antibodies to cholera," Kosten says...
...surprise that a society constantly under the threat of war unravels. Several hundred thousand civilians have been displaced by the conflict; Sri Lanka has high rates of domestic violence and alcoholism, and the suicide rate is among the worst in Asia. Reacting to the end of the cease-fire, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged Sri Lankans to find an end to the conflict "through a political solution." Alas, in a society where politics turns on religion and identity, such a solution has proved impossible - as two and a half decades of broken plans attest...
...record and secondary schools do not buckle under that pressure. We also hope that applicants will be honest, so that it does not come down to the high school’s disclosure of disciplinary infractions to expose a disciplinary issue. Finally, we do not believe the threat of legal action against secondary schools that withhold information is a wise option. Moral and practical pressures should be sufficient, and taking admissions decisions to court—which McGrath Lewis suggested may be a possibility to the newspaper Greenwich Time—would set a bad precedent. When a secondary school...
...this strategy to work, the Romney campaign has to moderate its public statements about McCain, whom they've tried to paint as a dangerous threat to "true" conservative values. They can't get bogged down in the mudpit they created. Kevin Madden, Romney's national spokesman, spoke of McCain last night with uncharacteristic generosity, lauding his independent style and allowing, "there's universal respect in the Republican Party...
...National Intelligence Estimate, which claimed that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, was a "major shock" to Israel. "This disrupted 15 years of Israeli policy based on working with the international coalition to pressure Iran to drop its nuclear weapons program through sanctions and the threat of military action, if necessary. Within two weeks, the momentum of the sanctions regime to contain Iran was suddenly reversed...