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Although few Americans have heard of menhaden, its protection is a big enough worry that 13 of 15 Atlantic states have banned from their waters the fish-oil company that catches 90% of the country's menhaden. The Houston-based Omega Protein insists the menhaden population is healthy. But while the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission says menhaden don't yet face overfishing on a coastal scale, it is limiting the industrial harvest of the fish in Chesapeake Bay, hard hit of late by dead zones. "The devastation of the marine environment has to be taken into account," says...
...Clouds Part But by early 2007, Ho had already glimpsed the possibility of an answer. In Houston the biotech firm Tanox had developed a compound that it thought might interest him. Ho knew Tanox well. He is a friend of one of the company's co-founders and is a member of its scientific-advisory board, so if the scientists there thought they were onto something, he suspected it was worth a look...
...flew to Houston, where he was given a briefing on a new agent called ibalizumab, an antibody that appeared able to block HIV's entry into healthy cells. In the 200 or so HIV-positive patients tested in the early trial, the compound was effective, but Tanox was worried about resistance. No matter how promising ARV drugs were, HIV inevitably found a way to evade them. So while the agent seemed to reduce the burden of virus in the blood up to 90% in patients with full-blown AIDS, no one knew how long the viral standoff would last...
That's a far cry from the climate in most of the U.S., where - despite the recent election of Annise Parker, a gay woman, as mayor of Houston, America's fourth largest city - honesty can still end a gay politician's career. Openly gay politicians such as San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk began winning seats in U.S. cities with large gay populations in the 1970s. Progress has since slowed, says David Rayside, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He believes that the relative strength of incumbency in the U.S. creates a barrier to the corridors...
...post to oversee the state's energy resources, he faced similar attacks and lost. "Their coordinated attacks on my sexuality really resonated in parts of Oklahoma," he says. "How do you respond to a ridiculous anti-gay-only message?" One answer: don't. During the home stretch of Houston's mayoral race in December, Annise Parker simply ignored attacks on her sexuality, and won. (Read: "What Houston's Gay Mayor Means for Texas...