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...past two years, Ho has retreated from his vaccine agenda and set up the pilot drug-treatment program in Kunming. Using funding from both ADARC and private donors, he has also built a clinic, set up a virology lab capable of performing basic viral-load tests and put together a state-of-the-art immunology lab--all of which will eventually absorb the testing required for the future vaccine studies...
Officers also discussed the availability of Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) classes for students and community members to learn basic self defense...
...decades, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Boston failed to uphold its duty to area Catholics. While the bishops preached the Church’s elaborate doctrines of sexual morality, they disobeyed the most basic ones. They allowed pedophilic priests to continually prey on Boston’s boys—shuffling offending priests from parish to parish, as if that would cure them. Thankfully, the coming forward of victims and additional outside pressure, has finally brought this cycle of abuse to light and has caused the Church to put its practice back in line with its preaching...
...Maybe you could spare a few pages for the heroic soldiers and Marines who make sure their weapons are usable (a task any soldier can do quickly after two weeks of basic training) and fire back at the enemy, not lower their heads and close their eyes while their fellow soldiers get shot and killed. If Lynch were male, she would be called a coward. There have been countless acts of real heroism in Iraq by soldiers who have put their lives on the line to save others. The media should be reporting those stories, not trying to manufacture...
...technological arms race against deep-pocketed Sony and Microsoft, he says that his company's salvation is its in-house creative team and the firm's ability to launch groundbreaking games that spawn blockbuster franchises such as the hugely popular Mario Brothers and Zelda series. "Nintendo's basic strategy is to do things differently," he says. "The key lies in developing games that customers have never come across...