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...designed to do: interrupt the virus at various points along its nefarious journey. The FDA has approved four different classes of ARVs, each of which blocks a separate step in HIV's life cycle. The strategy is to build up a security detail of pharmacological agents that together thwart the virus at every turn, making sure that every receptor, protein and enzyme that the virus co-opts to sneak into a cell is covered...
Habiba, a first-generation French woman of Algerian parentage who prefers not to give her last name, says many minority residents in the housing projects around her Toulouse home say they'll be voting for Le Pen - in large part to thwart Sarkozy's bid for the Elysée. "Sarkozy has stigmatized very specific populations as undesirable or violence prone, often with language many of us find more pointedly racist than Le Pen's ever was," she says...
...advantage. On defense, the Crimson struggled to clear the puck and allowed the Raiders to rifle three shots past rookie goalie Christina Kessler. Kessler made 15 saves in the game, while her counterpart, Colgate senior Brook Wheeler, recorded 31 stops on the school’s senior day to thwart a Crimson offense that outshot the Raiders, 32-18. Earlier in the year, Harvard, playing without its Olympians, just squeaked by Colgate in a 4-3 overtime win at home. The Raiders are currently fourth in the strong ECAC while Harvard sits in a tie for second with St. Lawrence...
...even mention how other genres have glorified Chicago at Indiana's expense - like Alfred Hitchcock's thriller North By Northwest, in which Cary Grant gets chased between Chicago and Indianapolis. In Chicago, Cary does suave, urbane things like thwart the bad guys at a high-rent art auction; in Indiana he gets attacked by a crop duster in a scene that makes the rural fields I used to run in look like a benighted dust bowl. Frank Sinatra sang about Chicago's Union Stockyards - but never about the Indianapolis stockyards I worked at in the summers with my grandfather...
...possibility that U.S. troops might cross the Iraq border into Iran in pursuit of Iranians suspected of moving weapons to Iraqi militias. > U.S. officials stress that the purpose here is simply protecting U.S. troops, but a number have reportedly said the purpose is to counter Iranian efforts to thwart the U.S. in Iraq - and, according to the New York Times, also to curb Iran's ambitions to strengthen its strategic influence in the region through its primacy in Iraq...