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...compared the viral DNA with the three known types of SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus), they found it had a substantially different genetic makeup. And when they compared Marilyn's genetic makeup with that of other chimps, they determined that she belonged to a different subspecies than the chimps that harbor the other SIV strains; those kindred chimps live farther east in the equatorial African rain forest. More important, Marilyn's virus closely matched the three major groupings of HIV-1 strains, whereas the other simian viruses appeared only remotely like the human virus...
...came forth with last year's The Healing, a quiet, sweetly engaging novel that took a National Book Award nomination, readers found themselves surprised as much as delighted. Jones returns with the story of a black female truck driver in south Texas who winds up in an effort to harbor border crossers. Mosquito is a carnival of digression and free association, though, with the plot hijacked for paragraphs, if not pages, by muddled tangents. Questions of racial identity provide an interesting subtext to the story, but they aren't probed much. Still, in rare moments, Jones' virtuosity grins...
...Marine plane that sliced the gondola's supporting cables, faces 20 counts of involuntary manslaughter that could put him in prison for life. The case is highly charged, not only because of the gruesomeness of the incident, but also because it has awakened the latent political resentment many Italians harbor against the U.S. military presence in their country. Realizing the potential hazards, the Pentagon will be taking care to present a fair trial. "The military will be acting here the same way as if the accident had occurred in Vail," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson...
While it is easy to have no sympathy for a well-heeled man who apparently murdered a woman out of jealous rage, there are reasons to harbor lingering doubt about the verdict. Capano continues to deny he committed the crime; the fact that he was more defiant than remorseful at his sentencing hearing perversely hurt his chances to live. (The jury apparently expected another sudden switch and admission of guilt.) No body or murder weapon was ever found, and the prosecution relied entirely on circumstantial evidence...
...Homework is done in radically different environments and is biased against poorer kids," says Etta Kralovec, director of educational studies at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. In the early '90s she surveyed Maine high school dropouts, who all cited their inability to keep up with homework as a major factor in the decision to leave school. Kralovec's solution to the inequities: "Homework should be done in school by all students--poor, middle and upper class--so that they all have the same access to computers and teachers." Boston's Dorchester High School has taken...