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...quest to understand which genes increase susceptibility to disease or influence a patient's response to certain medications. The study of the latter phenomenon - known as pharmacogenomics - has thus far excluded southern Africans, who have not only been poorly represented in clinical drug trials but also, in many cases, fail to respond optimally to crucial medications for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, two major scourges of the continent. "We can now be more inclusive rather than exclusive and begin to redress the problem of certain drugs not working as well for [southern Africans] as [Europeans]," says Vanessa Hayes, a cancer specialist...
Which brings us back to Cheney. He and his hard-line allies are rooting for Obama to fail. The leaders of Hamas - and other potential interlocutors, like the Syrians - need to understand that this may be their last best chance for progress. After Obama, the deluge...
...which do fall flat tumble headfirst. Track two, “Keep You Beautiful,” is a disappointing departure from the more audacious tracks. The weak drum beats and timid, painfully repetitive guitar loops invoke a stupor perhaps appropriate to some hazy, dim-lit lounge, but they fail to sustain the energy of the opener. “Keep You Beautiful” also lacks the diversity of the album’s better tracks; while a vibraphone and triangle rescue it from complete monotony, the song pales in comparison to the assortment of musical morsels available elsewhere...
These are all valid criticisms, but they fail to capture the real source of Americans’ frustration. Whatever the bad rap on Obama and the Democrats, were it not for the filibuster and lock-step Republican opposition, the President would have emerged from his first year in office with three—if not more—major legislative victories. The major disability of American democracy is not Democratic fecklessness so much as the pervasive and intensifying feeling that our legislative process is broken. Yet, in spite of the swelling public exasperation with a plainly dysfunctional system, there...
Signing into Gmail on Wednesday, we noticed something was different. The regular spots to enter username and password were missing when you directed your mouse to where you should have been able to log in. What the heck?! Google fail? Impossible. Recognizing that Google must be up to something, you must have reluctantly directed your gaze towards the screen and seen this golden message: “Go beyond status messages...