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...bred to be genetically similar. "The information you get from this type of test is far and beyond what you'd get out of a mouse study," says Michael Rivard, vice president of corporate development at VaxDesign, "both because it's humans and because you can see the effect across a spectrum of genotypes...
...March your team traveled to Beijing for exhibition games. Do you think the pollution there is going to affect the Olympics? -Ian Kachemov, Highland, Md.The pollution is pretty bad over there. I think it could really have an effect unless they clean it up. You could cut it with a knife...
...down devices - a mike, and maybe a glass of water or a barstool. Their weapon, language, is decidedly low-tech, so they rely on the element of surprise to startle unsuspecting crowds. "If a joke is set up properly, and detonates properly," says Irish comedian Abie Philbin Bowman, the effect is revelatory: "If you and your audience see something in a new way, and the explosion is joy and laughter, that's the most rewarding thing in the world, apart from...
...address concerns over his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, after videos surfaced of Wright making controversial remarks, calling on parishioners to "God Damn America" and calling the country the "U.S. of KKKA." While the media storm has died down in the wake of Obama's speech, the effect that Wright may have on voters remains to be seen. "Is it possible Obama could win Pennsylvania? Yes, but it would take aggressive campaigning and a big shift in momentum his way," said Donald F. Kettl, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania. "He would need to shake...
...office in bad times, but they didn't have to compete with hundreds of cable channels and home theater systems as unspeakably powerful as the Death Star, did they? "That makes it a little harder to predict," concedes Dergarabedian. "But I still think the recession will have a negligible effect. If anything, you might see people cutting back on concessions." That's what belt-tightening looks like in the America in 2008 - popcorn movies without popcorn...