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August 07, 2008: Headlines

In the absence of an AIDS cure, prevention gains prominence

Posted Thu, Aug 7, 5 a.m.

As vaccine research retrenches, scientists seek to provide a stopgap with new approaches to HIV prevention that were first explored with help from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Puget Sound triage

Posted Thu, Aug 7, 5 a.m.

Cleaning up the Sound for real requires political will, not feel-good projects that play well in the media but have little ecological impact. It means focusing on rural, not urban, areas. But that's not where most taxpayers live. It will also take a monumental infusion of cash, which could come from a variety of sources, including a mitigation 'bank' for private polluters.

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