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...Francisco, where a record 26,000 cancer specialists from around the world briefed each other on the good news starting to pour out of their laboratories. Unlike chemo and radiation, which use carpet-bombing tactics that destroy cancer cells and healthy cells alike, these new medicines are like a troop of snipers, firing on cancer cells alone and targeting their weakest links...
...richest nation in the world, $200 million is small change. To put it in perspective, some AIDS activists point out that the U.S. is still planning to spend some $30 to $40 billion on the much-troubled V-22 Osprey troop-carrying helicopter. (In that sense, South Africa may indeed be following Washington's example.) Such dramatics aside, there's clearly a problem here. The wealthy nations want to see fiscal discipline in the developing world as the precondition for aid and investment, and most of the developing world's leaders are happy to oblige. But AIDS is a full...
...genome itself - to suggest a more nuanced and complicated idea of what it means to be a human being. We are all more similar than racists or nationalists like to think: the genetic variance throughout the 6 billion humans on earth amounts to less than that in a single troop of chimpanzees. But those genes have afforded us an ability to adapt from foraging for hazelnuts to searching the Web in the evolutionary blink of an eye. What happens in the next blink is anybody's guess...
...theory, the fired Dell workers should land on their feet. Most have highly marketable skills, and unemployment in the area is near 2%. Every day they troop to a "career center" in northwest Austin. They check out websites like computerjobs.com and a bulletin board that boasts 30 "success stories"--only limited consolation given that companies where they might naturally land--Intel, Motorola and Verizon--have also been trimming workers. Doug Hutter, 41, with two kids at home, lost his job as an IT specialist Feb. 15. "I'm starting to get scared," he says. "I'm wondering where the next...
...tariff. But just as there was a bigger picture (Taiwan, trade) to U.S.-China relations than one errant spy plane, there's a bigger picture to Europe-U.S. relations than bananas. Like Bush pulling out of Kyoto. Or insisting on a missile-defense shield. Or reassessing U.S. European troop balance in the Balkans...