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• Issue of race creeps into presidential campaign
Their extensive voter research, they said, shows no sign that race -- or racism -- will play a meaningful role in the outcome of the election. Overwhelming economic concerns have wiped away lingering prejudice, they said, in a country that was ...
• A breakthrough
Yale political scientist Donald Green, who co-wrote the book "Get Out the Vote," says research has shown that face-to-face talk increases a voter's chances of turning out by 7 to 10 percent. If a campaign talks to a third of its hoped-for voters, it ...
• Research into HIV, cancer garners Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Three European scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the deadly diseases. French researchers ...
• Dispute behind Nobel Prize for HIV research
The announcement of the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine to French researchers Francoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier brings another chapter, perhaps the concluding one, to one of the ugliest controversies in modern medical science, charges ...
• Philanthropist gets Clinton to back stem cells
DETROIT - A retail mogul and philanthropist sought to advance stem cell research on scientific and political fronts — by announcing a multimillion-dollar donation to a medical institute bearing his name and luring a former president to stump for a ...