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...gloriously unexpected and vibrant face of our country. The sheer fun of the Inauguration, the world-record number of interracial hugs and kisses, augurs a new heterodox cultural energy, a nation - as the man said - of mutts. Already the Obama ethos is slipping into the nation's cultural bloodstream - not just the interraciality but also the mind-blowing normality of the family: the fact that Michelle Obama brought Laura Bush a going-away present, the fact that Sasha and Malia will make their own beds in the White House, the fact that our President proudly wears a Chicago White...
...stamps to computerized health records to bridge repairs to broadband networks to energy-efficiency retrofits, all designed to save or create 3 million to 4 million jobs by the end of 2010. Obama has said speed is his top priority because the faster Washington injects cash into the financial bloodstream, the better it stands to help avert a multiyear slump with double-digit unemployment and deflation. But he also wants to use the stimulus to advance his long-term priorities: reducing energy use and carbon emissions, cutting middle-class taxes, upgrading neglected infrastructure, reining in health-care costs and eventually...
...protect you against diabetes or bad effects of obesity even if you’re on a high-fat diet,” he said. “Secondly, we’re trying to...isolate from subcutaneous fat the different kinds of proteins it might secrete into the bloodstream that might have a beneficial effect.” “Even though fat has been around forever and has been studied for many years, there are still a lot of things we don’t understand,” Kahn said. —Staff writer Lingbo...
Stick a needle in your arm. For my sake. Usually it’s the left shoulder, but I don’t really care as long as long as the flu vaccine enters your bloodstream, because keeping the number of flu carriers low helps...
...have cured his patient is yet justified. HIV has a frustrating ability to hide in hard-to-detect "reservoir" cells in various parts of the body. Current antiviral drugs, for example, can lower a patient's "viral load" to the point that HIV is undetectable in his or her bloodstream. But as soon as such patients are taken off antivirals, the virus comes storming back...