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...clinical trials, which are sponsored by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of the vaccine. Gharib said that she was unsure how a nicotine vaccine would affect college-age adults or teenagers. She said that younger people may be less interested in the vaccine because they tend to be more risk-prone than older adults, who may be “feeling mortality a little bit more.” “They kind of get it that this is taking away from their lives,” she said. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached...
...opening one of his articles, Kristof wrote, “The critics of the Boston University (B.U.) administration have long regarded B.U. as the Iran of college campuses—intolerant, tyrannical, and prone to punish dissenters...
What is impossible to know is whether the same lengthy experience that made the Marines more attuned to the challenges of fighting in Iraq also made them more prone to snap if provoked. As TIME reported in March, a 13-man Kilo unit was on patrol in a residential part of Haditha on Nov. 19 when its convoy of four humvees was attacked by an IED. The explosion killed Miguel Terrazas, 20, a beloved member of the unit, who was driving the fourth humvee. Terrazas had a record of being cool under fire. His brother Martin reports that Terrazas once...
...over. Mount Merapi was disturbed by the quake, and heavy clouds of ash and debris erupted in the hours that followed. But even if Merapi remains silent, the country still sits on one of the most geologically unstable patches of the earth, part of an earthquake-prone area called the Ring of Fire. For Indonesia, natural catastrophe has come to seem all too natural...
...over. Mount Merapi was disturbed by the quake, and heavy clouds of ash and debris erupted in the hours that followed. But even if Merapi remains silent, the country still sits on one of the most geologically unstable patches of the earth, part of an earthquake-prone area called the Ring of Fire. For Indonesia, natural catastrophe has come to seem all too natural...