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Experts point to Atlanta; Charlotte, N.C.; and Denver as big-city school districts that have rebounded in the hands of strong managers. Detroit presents a very different situation. The tax base is nearly gone. Poverty and unemployment are far more pervasive than in most other major American cities. Many adults lack the basic skills necessary to qualify for the high-tech jobs officials are desperately trying to attract to Michigan, which has the U.S.'s highest unemployment rate. Home values, on which property-tax revenues are based, have plunged to pennies on the dollar. Over the past decade, the Detroit...
...Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC) in New York City, on his hunch. So is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has steered nearly $7 million his way to pursue the theory. Ho has redirected more than half of his lab to the project, and the results so far have reignited his passion for discovery; he's now back at the lab bench overseeing experiments...
...just with the notoriously weaker lab strains of HIV but also but with naturally circulating strains as well. The idea is to hit the antibody with the most potent HIV around, so if the strategy doesn't work, Ho can shut down the project, before it gets too far along...
...year ago at his Inauguration, Obama affirmed that "we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics." Maybe it's the memory of those huge, happy crowds that makes the contrast between then and now so irresistible. OBAMA WALKS A LONG AND LONELY ROAD, observed a recent headline in the Financial Times, and that image is everywhere - a once untouchably popular figure unable to connect as President the way he did as a candidate or shine the light of hope...
...first tournament of the decade brought unusual results for the Harvard fencing team, as the No. 7 men far exceeded expectations and the previously-unbeaten No. 3 women dropped every match at the St. John’s Invitational yesterday...