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...Valerie Plame, was unprecedented, but at last week's Cabinet meeting, the President shrugged and said he didn't think the leaker would be caught. His apparent nonchalance is outrageous. Plame was integral to the CIA's effort to suss out the movement of weapons of mass destruction-ground zero in the war on terror...
South Africa, with the most HIV positive citizens of any nation, is the undisputed ground-zero of the global AIDS crisis. In 2001, seeking to acquire cheaper generic versions of d4T in order to treat dying South Africans, the Nobel Prize winning organization Doctors Without Borders requested that Yale act in conjunction with BMS to drop its patent protection in the country. But Yale wouldn’t budge; at least not until a group of Yale students began to mobilize around the issue, mounting a stubborn media campaign to shame the university and BMS. Eventually the students prevailed...
Published books: Zero. Biologists publish in journals, not books (unlike God, which is why, according to the joke, He was turned down for a grant at the National Science Foundation...
Thus The Dictionary of Failed Relationships was born, a kind of Chicken Soup—for the Jaded, Overworked, Yuppie Soul. From “Ambivalence” to “Zero,” the anthology of short stories written by some of the best young (female) authors in America turns the pain of breakups into hilarious fiction...
...Anytime you can win on a situation like that—on a short field and having to run on after a turnover—and hold them to zero points, it’s just huge,” Balestracci said...