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...polio or measles or smallpox vaccines - essentially wiping out the diseases in treated populations. Instead, an ibalizumab-based therapy will be just one of many weapons against HIV, albeit a very powerful one. "At our first meeting on this, I said I have a strategy that I feel will work," Ho recalls. "It was truly my gut feeling...
Continually easing the pain of jobless Americans, it turns out, can contribute to high jobless rates by warping incentives to look for work. "The consensus estimates show that unemployment benefits do prolong unemployment spells by quite a bit," says University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer, who has produced academic studies on the issue dating back to the recession of the early 1980s. (See 10 ways your job will change...
...conciliator, the extreme centrist - underestimates the scale of the challenge he faces. It would be nice for Presidents to have magical powers, and Obama convinced many people that he had them, not least by managing to get himself elected in the first place. But his rhetorical gifts can now work against him, when he raises expectations only to see them crash into realities for which he's now held accountable. Make no mistake, indeed; lonely does not begin to describe where he lives...
...been working on it for five years before we got to the shooting stage. Everything was pretty much nailed down. What I love about moviemaking is that you're under the gun. You've got 250 people standing around waiting. I love to work under that kind of pressure...
...Volvo 544, one of the first cars with a shoulder belt. It hung on a little peg behind you. I was on my way to work, and I realized I didn't have my [seat] belt on. So I was reaching around to get the damn belt off the peg when I bumped a curb and hit a telephone pole. The Volvo was totaled. I got a fairly--forgive me, man, but if this is your best work--untalented surgeon. That's what I needed: more asymmetry in my face...