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...More Funny Stuff Ze's Page www.zefrank.com The site began four years ago with "How To Dance Properly," a series of short looped video clips that web designer Frank posted online to amuse friends. The link was passed around like a virus you wanted to catch; within days millions had logged on, and a Web star was born. Today, Ze's page hosts a huge collection of interactive toys and games, comedic writings and humorous video monologues...
...World Health Organization (WHO) and other scientists are worried about Vietnam's vaccine, which they say could itself make people sick, or even set off a pandemic. The problem is that the virus reference seed?the weakened bit of live H5N1 used to build up immunity in the human body?was mixed with cancer cells to help it replicate and then grown in a monkey kidney. That method is highly unorthodox. "People could get cancer from the vaccine," says Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO's global influenza program. Even more ominous, the developers say they've followed international procedures...
...officials thought they had convinced Vietnam's government to call off human testing on its vaccine and develop a new one based on an approved virus seed provided by the WHO. But two top Vietnamese scientists tell TIME they will forge ahead with their own strain. "Nothing has changed," says Dr. Nguyen Thu Van, the head of the vaccine team. "We will test our vaccine on humans as planned before." There's little anyone can do: the WHO has no enforcement powers. "The danger is very unlikely," admits Michael Perdue, a WHO virus expert who has consulted with Vietnam...
After five years of virus-battling, network-saving, and system-upgrading, the beloved Director of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 will leave Harvard this summer to pursue a similar career at Duke University...
...week in a New England Journal of Medicine report on an experimental vaccine that cuts the risk of shingles--and its painful side effects--by more than half. Like the chicken pox inoculation that is given to children, the new vaccine contains a weakened form of the chicken pox virus. The adult version, though, is 20 times more powerful than the pediatric one because it's working to boost the immune response in bodies where the virus has already taken hold. (Children who are vaccinated against chicken pox still get shingles, but at a lower rate...