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First Chickens in Americas Were Brought From Polynesia
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, The New York Times, June 5, 2007
Why did the chicken cross the Pacific Ocean? To get to the other side, in South America. How? By Polynesian canoes, which apparently arrived at least 100 years before Europeans settled the continent.
That is the conclusion of an international research team, which reported yesterday that it had found “the first unequivocal evidence for a pre-European introduction of chickens to South America,” or presumably anywhere in the New World.
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Puerto Rico’s AIDS Care in Disarray Over Funds
By ERIK ECKHOLM, The New York Times, June 5, 2007
SAN JUAN, P.R. — His emaciated body advertises the damage wreaked by the AIDS virus. But over the last year, Rolando Warren González, 41, a former steel band member, has faced an extra challenge to his survival.
From the shelter where he lives in Loiza in Puerto Rico’s impoverished northeast, Mr. González travels an hour and a half by bus to reach the government clinic where he receives his “cocktail” of antiviral drugs.
“But sometimes I go, and they just don’t have the medicines,” he said.
Six times in the last year, he said, he has suffered two-week periods with no drugs, undercutting the life-prolonging benefits of modern therapies against H.I.V., the AIDS virus.
Accounts like his — and worse — are repeated across this tropical territory of the United States, where hundreds of H.I.V. and AIDS patients are not receiving vital medical care, say a host of doctors, community groups and patients.
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Slipstream: First, Cure Malaria. Next, Global Warming
By JASON PONTIN, The New York Times, June 3, 2007
Amyris Biotechnologies has almost finished developing a cheap cure for malaria that could save the lives of millions of the poor. Now, using the same technology, this start-up in Emeryville, Calif., wants to create new biofuels that may help save the planet.
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By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, The New York Times, June 5, 2007
Why did the chicken cross the Pacific Ocean? To get to the other side, in South America. How? By Polynesian canoes, which apparently arrived at least 100 years before Europeans settled the continent.
That is the conclusion of an international research team, which reported yesterday that it had found “the first unequivocal evidence for a pre-European introduction of chickens to South America,” or presumably anywhere in the New World.
( Read More )
Puerto Rico’s AIDS Care in Disarray Over Funds
By ERIK ECKHOLM, The New York Times, June 5, 2007
SAN JUAN, P.R. — His emaciated body advertises the damage wreaked by the AIDS virus. But over the last year, Rolando Warren González, 41, a former steel band member, has faced an extra challenge to his survival.
From the shelter where he lives in Loiza in Puerto Rico’s impoverished northeast, Mr. González travels an hour and a half by bus to reach the government clinic where he receives his “cocktail” of antiviral drugs.
“But sometimes I go, and they just don’t have the medicines,” he said.
Six times in the last year, he said, he has suffered two-week periods with no drugs, undercutting the life-prolonging benefits of modern therapies against H.I.V., the AIDS virus.
Accounts like his — and worse — are repeated across this tropical territory of the United States, where hundreds of H.I.V. and AIDS patients are not receiving vital medical care, say a host of doctors, community groups and patients.
( Read More )
Slipstream: First, Cure Malaria. Next, Global Warming
By JASON PONTIN, The New York Times, June 3, 2007
Amyris Biotechnologies has almost finished developing a cheap cure for malaria that could save the lives of millions of the poor. Now, using the same technology, this start-up in Emeryville, Calif., wants to create new biofuels that may help save the planet.
( Read More )
