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In Tests, AIDS Vaccine Seemed to Increase Risk
This is heartbreaking, isn't it?
In a puzzling and potentially troubling development, an AIDS vaccine tested in a closely watched trial might have increased the risk among vaccine recipients of becoming infected with H.I.V., researchers reported yesterday at a scientific meeting in Seattle.
But the researchers said not enough data existed to determine the meaning of the findings about the vaccine, which is made by Merck.
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Surge Seen in Number of Homeless Veterans
This just makes me cry.
Experts who work with veterans say it often takes several years after leaving military service for veterans’ accumulating problems to push them into the streets. But some aid workers say the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans appear to be turning up sooner than the Vietnam veterans did.
“We’re beginning to see, across the country, the first trickle of this generation of warriors in homeless shelters,” said Phil Landis, chairman of Veterans Village of San Diego, a residence and counseling center. “But we anticipate that it’s going to be a tsunami.”
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2007 Is Deadliest Year for U.S. Troops in Iraq
Mexican Floods Push Families to Last Islands of Home
There are thousands of people living like this on the roofs and the top floors of their houses in Villahermosa, much of which is underwater after rain-swollen rivers and lagoons flooded the gulf state of Tabasco last week.
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Most of those on the roofs said they were there to protect against looters who cart off the television sets and washing machines that were carried up there as the floodwaters rose.
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As Japan Ages, Prisons Adapt to Going Gray
The prison population is aging in the United States, too, but that is a result mostly of long mandatory sentences and restrictive parole practices. In Japan, by contrast, the rise is being driven by crime, mostly nonviolent.
From 2000 to 2006, the number of older criminals soared by 160 percent, to 46,637, from 17,942, according to Japan’s National Police Agency. Shoplifting accounted for 54 percent of the total in 2006 and petty theft for 23 percent.
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In Tests, AIDS Vaccine Seemed to Increase Risk
This is heartbreaking, isn't it?
In a puzzling and potentially troubling development, an AIDS vaccine tested in a closely watched trial might have increased the risk among vaccine recipients of becoming infected with H.I.V., researchers reported yesterday at a scientific meeting in Seattle.
But the researchers said not enough data existed to determine the meaning of the findings about the vaccine, which is made by Merck.
[ more ]
Surge Seen in Number of Homeless Veterans
This just makes me cry.
Experts who work with veterans say it often takes several years after leaving military service for veterans’ accumulating problems to push them into the streets. But some aid workers say the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans appear to be turning up sooner than the Vietnam veterans did.
“We’re beginning to see, across the country, the first trickle of this generation of warriors in homeless shelters,” said Phil Landis, chairman of Veterans Village of San Diego, a residence and counseling center. “But we anticipate that it’s going to be a tsunami.”
[ more ]
2007 Is Deadliest Year for U.S. Troops in Iraq
Mexican Floods Push Families to Last Islands of Home
There are thousands of people living like this on the roofs and the top floors of their houses in Villahermosa, much of which is underwater after rain-swollen rivers and lagoons flooded the gulf state of Tabasco last week.
...
Most of those on the roofs said they were there to protect against looters who cart off the television sets and washing machines that were carried up there as the floodwaters rose.
[ more ]
As Japan Ages, Prisons Adapt to Going Gray
The prison population is aging in the United States, too, but that is a result mostly of long mandatory sentences and restrictive parole practices. In Japan, by contrast, the rise is being driven by crime, mostly nonviolent.
From 2000 to 2006, the number of older criminals soared by 160 percent, to 46,637, from 17,942, according to Japan’s National Police Agency. Shoplifting accounted for 54 percent of the total in 2006 and petty theft for 23 percent.
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