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/ 17 December 2008
With the US economy slumping, the going has got very tough, but the tough are no longer shopping. They’re laughing.
The United States government began a major overhaul of its effort to produce an Aids vaccine on Tuesday, stressing a return to basic scientific research after the failure of a key clinical trial last year. Government officials at a summit with Aids scientists pledged to prioritise spending on lab work and animal tests rather than expensive large-scale vaccine trials on humans.
South Korean KJ Choi captured his second title in the last five weeks with a three-stroke victory at the Tiger Woods invitational tournament on a sweltering Sunday at the Congressional Country Club. Choi steadied himself after a shaky mid-round stretch when he bogeyed the 10th, 11th and 13th.
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/ 13 September 2004
Reading difficulties can be traced to different parts of the brain in Chinese and Western children, a team of American scientists say. In China, dyslexia appears to have a different physical origin, because the script, also used in Japan, is symbol rather than alphabet-based. The discovery casts doubt on the widespread assumption that dyslexia has a universal cause.
Fear is settling into this leafy, affluent suburb on the northern edge of the US capital, where lurks an eagle-eyed sniper who has killed six and wounded two in the past week and is still at large.