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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...part, Novartis now spends more than $1 billion a year on ensuring better access to medicines. The firm has built two research labs dedicated to preventing and curing neglected diseases such as dengue fever and tuberculosis and has pledged to eradicate leprosy. (Read "A Vaccine That Could Help Wipe Out Malaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Better Deal on Malaria | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...word soul gets used. We don't open with it, because it's a word that can be overused. But it does creep in in the later episodes. There is definitely something about her, that however many times they may wipe out her personality, she still retains something. And they can't really control that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Joss Whedon, creator of Dollhouse | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...were pushing back against the incoming waves of would-be-pee-ers and the had-been-shoved. We were packed so tightly, caught between the pressure of the cripple falling back into us and of the chain behind us, that I couldn’t raise my hand to wipe my nose. People were angry. They pushed at us. “What are you doing blocking me hun?” “We were here first!” “You’re going to have to move.” We apologized, said...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Portable-Toilets: The Inauguration Holy Grail | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...settlements in the West Bank, which Palestinians say is a main obstacle to peace, and they are adamant that Israel should hang on to the Golan Heights, which was seized from Syria in the 1967 war. Netanyahu and Lieberman also say the army ought to return to Gaza and wipe out Hamas. During the campaign, Netanyahu said, "There will be no alternative but to bring down the regime of Hamas, a terrorist organization pledged to our destruction. Ultimately, Israel cannot tolerate an Iranian base right next to its cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Election Dashes Hopes for Peace | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

That's why NASA planetary scientist Christopher McKay, in an article in this week's Science, suggests the need for a stronger policy that ensures all exploration of Mars be "biologically reversible" - meaning we would be required to effectively wipe away our footprints and remove any possibility of contamination, by leaving behind nothing that could foster alien microbial growth. Such a policy would be especially necessary if we discover that life on Mars has emerged independently of life on Earth - what McKay calls a "second genesis" - as opposed to Martian life that arose through the exchange of meteorites between Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Bringing Our Germs to Mars? | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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