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The worst fights we've ever seen at Sushi Den haven't been over the last piece of o-toro, but over the last seat at the sushi bar on a Friday night. And that's odd, because we'd punch a nun if she was standing between us and some of the brilliant, beautiful, achingly fresh fish brought in by the convoluted and murderously expensive delivery system that Toshi, Sushi Den's owner, has been laboring for twenty years to perfect. As a result of those Herculean efforts, you can be eating fish on South Pearl Street on Saturday night that was sold Saturday morning on the floor of the Nagahama market in Kukuoka, Japan, and was swimming in the ocean on Friday. There aren't many other restaurants where you can do that -- none in Denver, and few in the country. As a result, this is the only place in town where we'll lay out the greenbacks for real o-toro, where we'll wait an hour or more for surf clam and eel, where we'll fight off that nun for the bright-orange uni presented in a simple slip of black seaweed.
You might recognize the name "Tacos D.F." It was painted on the side of a great lonchera that once prowled the streets of Denver. Now all the pleaures of that taco truck can be found in the same spot night after night, in a little joint in the middle of a strip mall along Parker Road. The space is warm and comfortable, with one wall covered floor to ceiling with black-marker graffiti scrawled by legions of satisfied customers. Service is exceptionally quick, incredibly friendly and eager to please. There are specials written out longhand on construction paper -- but anything from the regular offerings of pork and asada tacos, tacos cabeza, sopes de bistec and a short list of tortas is bound to be good. It helps to speak a little Spanish here, but you can usually get by with some phonetics, a little mime and a lot of pointing at the menu hung above the window where orders are taken, paid for and delivered.
Tonti's is an enigma. It's a tiny strip-mall joint, almost always empty except for a couple of employees hanging disconsolately around the counter. And while about half the time what we get off the short, predictable menu (pizzas, calzones, stromboli, meatball sandwiches) is completely forgettable, the other half it's
fantastic beyond any rational explanation. At its best, Tonti's makes the kind of stromboli you just can't stop eating, the kind of New York-style pizzas that wake you up in the middle of the night -- calling you from inside the refrigerator, demanding that you eat a leftover slice cold, standing there in your socks and boxers. So, yes, sometimes Tonti's makes the best strip-mall Italian food in the city and sometimes it doesn't. Just ask yourself one question before you go in: Do you feel lucky?
If you wanted to give people a true taste of Denver, where would you send them? For us, Elway's -- Big John's eponymous temple of meat -- comes out on top every time. For the scene, the service, the staff and the sly humor implicit in the menu's design, Elway's is that single restaurant that defines what it is to eat in Denver today. There's money here, but there are also plenty of people in blue jeans. Although the restaurant is in Cherry Creek, it could be picked up whole and successfully transplanted to almost any other neighborhood in the city (as proven by the recently announced expansion into the new downtown Ritz-Carlton). And while chef Tyler Wiard and everyone in Elway's kitchen certainly know how to handle a piece of meat, the little flourishes and big hospitality are what set this place apart. Oh, yes, and then there's that connection to a certain quarterback...
Legislators and local union leaders, cowboys and cooks. You never know who'll end up at Brewery Bar II on any given day, because everyone who knows and loves Denver for its less cosmopolitan charms passes through here eventually, looking for cold beer, hot chile, gloriously sloppy Meximerican grub of no discernible geographical provenance and that certain dim-lit and rough-edged temper that's the solid base from which all of Denver's uptown glitz and glamour have grown. Though Brew II has recently spawned a passel of polished suburban offspring, they're bastards born of opportunism and sprawl psychology. You want the real thing? Head down to the blue-collar part of town, grab a seat at the bar and order a Tiny.
Cafe Star isn't a French restaurant -- though some of the preparations (like the duck confit) are certainly Continental in origin -- and given the worldliness of its cuisine, it isn't a completely American restaurant. It isn't a fine-dining restaurant -- it's too fun for that -- but neither is it just a neighborhood restaurant, because there are nights when even the neighbors can't get a seat. No, on this food frontier, Cafe Star is blazing its own trail, building on the failures of California cuisine, the innovations of immigrant cooks and the decades of dining dominance enjoyed by the big cities on the coasts. This is a New West restaurant through and through, and a great star on the local scene.


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The Korean water toad, Bufo stejnegeri, also sometimes known as the Korean toad or water toad, is a species of toad found in East Asia. Two distinct populations are known to exist, one in eastern Liaoning province of northeastern China, and one in the central mountains of the Korean Peninsula.[1] Within South Korea, it is found in eastern Gyeonggi (specifically Gapyeong) and also in Gangwon-do (particularly the Odaesan mountain complex). In addition, it is expected that there are or have been additional populations in the region between central Korea and Liaoning.
The Korean water toad is found inland, at elevations from 200 to 700 meters above sea level. As its name suggests, it favors water, and is typically found in wooded riparian areas.[1] Breeding and egg-laying take place in the waters of streams and rivers. The water toad is typically nocturnal, but is also active during the day during the summer rains.
Because of their superficial similarity to frogs, Korean water toads are sometimes eaten. However, like other toads, they are poisonous. A case of severe poisoning from a digoxin-like immunoreactive substance was reported in 1998.[2]
The classification of the Korean water toad into the genus Bufo was challenged in a 2006 paper.[3] However, no alternative classification was proposed and the species is thus technically "unassigned to genus."[4]
- ^ a b c Matsui, M. & Zhao, W. (2004). "Bufo stejnegeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
- ^ "A Case of Digoxin-like Immunoreactive Substance (DLIS) Poisoning After Ingestion of Fried Water Toad (Bufo stejnegeri Schmidt)". KoreaMed. Retrieved 2007-06-07.
- ^ Frost, D. R.; Grant, T.; Faivovich, J. N.; Bain, R. H.; Haas, A.; Haddad, C. L. F. B.; De Sá, R. O.; Channing, A.; Wilkinson, M.; Donnellan, S. C.; Raxworthy, C. J.; Campbell, J. A.; Blotto, B. L.; Moler, P.; Drewes, R. C.; Nussbaum, R. A.; Lynch, J. D.; Green, D. M.; Wheeler, W. C. (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 297: 1–291. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5781.
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Durban, South Africa 7.9.000 - 7.14.00
13th International AIDS Conference
"Bridging the Gap" was the official theme of the 12th World AIDS Conference in 1998, but that meeting merely gestured toward the chasm between the globe's treatment haves and have-nots. At No. 13 in Durban in July, the first such affair ever held in a developing country, the gap swallowed the conference whole. With Africans constituting a third of the 12,437 delegates (by far, the largest proportion ever), there was no escaping a painful irony: High-tech studies on viral resistance and future meds were irrelevant to many of the doctors and PWAs in attendance. One poignant expression of this disconnect was a march by traditional healers, angry that the conference excluded research into the effectiveness of their widely used, and far cheaper, remedies. But the conference's mantra was first sounded at the opening plenary, when South African judge Edwin Cameron, an openly positive HAART-taker, made a ferociously moving call for universal access to antiretrovirals. Debates on treatment access dotted the program, while even at clinical-science sessions, the audience raised the issue again and again.
With several demonstrations against drug-price gouging -- also the hot topic of hallway conversations -- pharmaceuticals were on the defensive. The usual Broadway-budget display booths were scaled-back productions this year, many "tastefully" papered with photos of African children. Almost every day, one company or another trumpeted drug giveaways for poor countries -- often with strings attached. (Pfizer's free-fluconazole offer, for example, was limited to people with meningitis in South Africa and for only two years.)
Meanwhile, South African President Thabo Mbeki's controversial flirtation with AIDS "dissidents" buzzed around the proceedings like a swarm of gnats: From David Ho, MD, to Anthony Fauci, MD, major researchers drew thunderous applause by uttering the self-evident "HIV causes AIDS." And with daily talks on microbicides and mother-to-child transmission, the epidemic among women gained new prominence.
There's no doubt that No. 13 was the scientific conference gone political, a reminder that AIDS has always been as much about society as about science. We hope the following highlights take you into the heat of the moment.
PWA Lounge
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Depressed by the dismal opening ceremony -- a made-for-TV embarrassment with Lion King staging -- I ducked in to Durban's PWA lounge as an antidote. I found the décor to be decidedly different from Geneva's in 1998. While that lounge was dimly lit and hung with stiff white drapes -- think funeral-parlor chic -- Durban's offered Hampton-summer-home glamour with a bright tropical garden and white patio tables large enough to seat activists from five continents all together.
On the lush green lawn, as treatment advocates clobbered chicken stew and plotted their next moves, I soon found myself engrossed in conversation. Less than two years after South African activist Gugu Dlamini was stoned to death by her neighbors for disclosing her HIV status, a woman beside me says, her story ignited Siyaphile, an AIDS advocacy group. Banding together to come out as well, they began educating rural residents in Gugu's KwaZulu-Natal province. One of the group's members, Thanda, 18, giggled at the bare boys in the safer-sex ads in my magazine, Positive Nation, and told me calmly that she was diagnosed with HIV after being raped at 15. She now tours village schools. Thandwile, 47, a dignified mother of five, saw her husband die of AIDS; she has since adopted six AIDS orphans. Too frail for township excursions, she commands Siyaphile's "office," a bare room with a phone but no chair.
Perhaps because the African epidemic is largely heterosexual, the lounge seemed less queer than at past conferences, so I was less flirtatious. Still, you can admire from a distance, and one fine hetero specimen was Moses Mathathwa, 32, a rascally ex-cop-turned-firebrand advocate. Sipping beer and speaking with a strong local accent, he shared his story, one of universal application: Being diagnosed with HIV during a routine STD checkup. Losing his job. Depression, drinking, suicide attempts, conversation with God. Finally, lying in a gutter one night before gaining a sense of urgency about his life.
Nearly everyone I cozied up to in the lounge reminded me that I was witnessing history. They reminded me of how determination feels, and what activism in Europe and the U.S. was like before activists became career PWAs and the infighting began. Capping off a Castle beer with Moses, I pondered how we have much to teach Africa's new activists, also how much to learn from them. While we may share what has succeeded -- and what has failed miserably -- they can help us rediscover a renewed sense of purpose.
War of The Words
Excerpts from four speeches that rocked the Durban house
7.9.00 Winnie Madikezela-Mandela
President of the African National Congress Women's League
"Let me start by asserting what appears to have become less obvious in South Africa in the last few months: AIDS exists. HIV causes AIDS. Like the spread of global parasitic imperialism, AIDS is roaming the world, attacking the poor and marginalized. In our beloved Africa, it has already cut a swath of destruction, swallowing up families, communities and villages....
"To claim this century 'the African century' is to declare war on AIDS. Comrades, let us concede that we have failed to take HIV/AIDS seriously. That failure is a betrayal of our struggle for social justice and of our hopes for a better society. We must take responsibility for that failure. We knew that this plague was moving South -- we saw what it had done in the North -- and yet we did nothing. Instead of following the example of Uganda and taking serious action, we wasted time on [the AIDS musical] Sarafina, [a government-backed AIDS drug that proved worthless] Virodene, and [dissident] right-wing American scientists. Our failure to act has made us the murderers of our own people.
"But there is room for hope. If we could give the same attention to the struggle against HIV/AIDS as we gave to the bid to host the World Cup, we could save millions of lives."
7.9.00 Thabo Mbeki
President of South Africa
"As an African, speaking at a conference such as this, convened to discuss a grave problem such as the acquired human deficiency syndrome [sic], I believe that we should speak to one another honestly and frankly, with sufficient tolerance to allow all voices to be heard.
"Had we, as a people, turned our backs on these basic civilized precepts, we would never have achieved the much-acclaimed South African miracle of which all humanity is justly proud.
"Some in our common world consider the questions I and the rest of our government have raised around the HIV/AIDS issue as akin to grave criminal and genocidal misconduct.
"What I hear being said repeatedly, stridently, angrily, is 'Do not ask any questions!'"
7.10.00 Edwin Cameron
Judge, High Court of South Africa
"It is often a source of puzzled reflection how ordinary Germans could have tolerated the moral iniquity that was Nazism. Or how white South Africans could have countenanced the evils of apartheid. Yet the position of persons living with AIDS in Africa poses a comparable moral dilemma for the developed world today: the inequities of a world trade system that weighs the poor with debt while privileging the wealthy with inexpensive materials and labor.
"Those of us who live affluent lives, well-attended by medical care, should not ask how Germans or white South Africans could tolerate living in proximity to moral evil. We do so ourselves today, in proximity to the impending illness and death of many millions of people with AIDS. This will happen because available treatments are denied to those who need them for the sake of aggregating corporate wealth for shareholders who, by African standards, are already unimaginably affluent."
7.14.00 Nelson Mandela
Former president of South Africa
"The scientific community of this country, I know, holds dearly to the principle of freedom of scientific inquiry, unencumbered by undue political interference and direction of science.
"Now, however, the ordinary people of the continent and the world -- and particularly the poor, who on our continent will again carry a disproportionate burden of this scourge -- would, if anyone cared to ask their opinions, wish that the dispute about the primacy of politics or science be put on the back burner and that we proceed to address the needs and concerns of those suffering and dying.
"I come from a long tradition of collective leadership, consultative decision-making and joint action toward the common good. We have overcome much that many thought insurmountable through an adherence to those practices. In the face of the grave threat posed by HIV/AIDS, we have to rise above our differences and combine our efforts to save our people. History will judge us harshly if we fail to do so, and right now."
The March
A freedom-song refrain
Over and over, the song rang out in Zulu, a cadence that had summoned the strength of black South Africa in its struggle to end white minority rule: "Hold it / you fighters / The sound of your machines / reminds me / of Oliver Tambo!"
Engulfed by 2,500 people belting out the chorus of the famous African National Congress (ANC) tribute to a movement hero, I watched awestruck as protesters danced the toi toi, another expression of the anti-apartheid struggle. I'd seen countless newsreels of this sort of defiant celebration. Now, with apartheid history, I listened as a new generation of fighters told the world that the war for their lives has begun again.
"The toi toi gives me strength. I bring down this foot," said HIVer-activist Mercy Makhalemele, stamping down one foot while raising the other high, "and I feel it. I bring down the other foot" -- her boot crashed to the cement -- "and I feel it."
That's just the reaction that organizers of this July 9 march through downtown Durban sought to spark among the 4.2 million South Africans who are HIV positive: a renewed spirit of resistance against what they consider the nation's new oppressors -- multinational pharmaceutical companies.
South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) organized the protest in partnership with the U.S.-based Health GAP Coalition, with scores of conferees from abroad joining in. The march, which nearly upstaged the opening of the conference, revealed a growing impatience among black South Africans from poor townships, both with drug-company price gouging and with their own government's equivocation about providing basic medications for HIV-related illnesses.
"The drug companies are strong. But we have right on our side," said Zackie Achmat, a TAC leader. "We did not stop apartheid by not fighting. We can't stop HIV without a fight."
The march witnessed the reassembly of the old anti-apartheid coalition -- including a major trade-union confederation, the South African Communist Party and rank-and-filers from the ANC. But the most dramatic link between past and present came when Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a national hero for her decades-long resistance to apartheid, addressed the rally. Youthful protesters screamed like adoring fans seeing a rap star, but her song went this way: "Today we are marching again. It is part of the long walk to freedom. We brought down apartheid -- who are the pharmaceuticals?"
Women's Programs
The other epidemic
I was told to head out the side door of the convention center, pass through the rows of food stands serving curry and brai, go two blocks down and one block over, enter a playhouse across from the red-beribboned Durban City Hall and climb the stairs of its musty, Tudor-style left wing. As I reached the stairs, I could already hear women's quiet questions, exclamations and laughter. After a morning at the official conference, taking in Powerpoint presentations and elbowing my way to the mike for rushed question periods, I had stumbled into an event where real conversations were taking place: Women Helping Women, or, in Zulu, Umbumbano loMama, a six-day women's satellite conference.
The event was patched together by the International Community of Women Living with AIDS, the International AIDS Society's (IAS) Women's Caucus and a scattered group of activists from New York City and around the globe. After watching conferences No. 1 through No. 12 consistently sideline the "second sex," these women decided to throw their own party at No. 13. Over the course of the week, dozens of women presenters made the trek over to the playhouse, to break down their research for a crowd of South African women with AIDS.
My American mind was bent daily as I spoke with these local PWAs, from ANC activist Mercy Makhalemele, a dashiki-clad human storm of an organizer, to Mpho Babusi, who once camped in front of Mandela's house after being tossed out by her family for going public with her status, to teenage S'lie, a fashion-conscious charmer who's doing battle with meningitis in a country where clinics are unable to stock fluconazole. There were women from rural areas where HIV educators don't venture; women with years of experience in the liberation struggle but who had never been to an AIDS meeting of any kind.
When one presenter, Beverly Greet of Australia, introduced herself by saying she'd been HIV positive for 14 years, murmurs of incredulity washed across the room. When she said that for 10 of those 14 years she didn't take any drugs at all, the murmurs became a rumble. And when Greet later mentioned that she'd gone on antiretrovirals, a woman's hand shot up: "Are you still HIV positive?" Many local PWAs had seemingly invested the flawed drugs with near-magical properties, precisely because of their unattainability.
One prevention workshop became the scene of a charged debate. Eka Williams, from Nigeria, challenged each woman to be brutally honest about her husband's infidelities, to encourage him to use condoms with his other women (but how, one woman asked, when he doesn't tell us that's what he's doing?). If all else failed, Williams said, consider divorce (this provoked some scandalized laughter). Blanca Ortiz from Puerto Rico countered by encouraging the women to try alternative sexual practices that did not involve penetration. One woman became angry: No husband would stand for this! But the room had warmed up fast: What acts, exactly, was Ortiz talking about? Then, a voice from the back: "We once had a traditional practice like this -- uxom, thigh sex. We need to get our young people to go back to the roots." Afterward, six women huddled in the corner as Ortiz sketched a clitoris and labia, pointing out areas of arousal outside of the vagina.
Over at the main conference, gender issues were more visible than ever before, with talks on microbicides, maternal transmission and violence against women. I ran into a stunned Joyce Hunter as she came out of researcher Geeta Rao Gupta's plenary speech -- a rousing indictment of how gender inequality fuels the spread of AIDS -- that brought down the house. "You know," whispered Hunter, an IAS Women's Caucus cofounder, "I think our women's program pushed the main conference to include us."
On the last day of the women's event, 100 participants gathered in a bare university classroom to plan the beginnings of a national network of women with AIDS. As woman after woman volunteered to be a township coordinator, the others cheered. Mpho Babusi stood up at the close and said, nearly shouting, "I learned that I can't wait for someone else to speak up for Mpho, that I must speak up for myself. I have a right to, and I can." There's no sight like the birth of an activist, and the sweet, exhausted singing that followed felt like it was rising right out of my chest.
The HIV Controversy
Face-off with the flat-earthers
As I sat in Kingsmead Cricket Stadium waiting for the conference's opening ceremony to begin, in a city on the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, with roads better paved than in my Boston home, surf-boarders, Internet cafés and fine restaurants, my thoughts floated back to the letter I'd received this spring. It was from President Thabo Mbeki, inviting me, as head of the HIV-treatment advocacy group Search for a Cure, to join his advisory panel on AIDS. Besides asking us to address the notorious question of whether HIV causes AIDS, Mbeki challenged us to determine why the disease attacks such different populations in his country and in the North, and what responses make sense given South Africa's economic realities. The panel was to meet twice and submit a report before the Durban conference.
I had misgivings about serving: I didn't want to lend any credence to Peter Duesberg and the other HIV-doesn't-cause-AIDS adherents invited by Mbeki. I spoke with other HIV believers named to the panel about whether to boycott the meeting, but we decided that our presence could help give Mbeki a graceful way out of this controversy.
In the end, 24 of the 34 who showed up at the May meeting in Pretoria were HIV believers. But the panel itself was a theater of the absurd. There was no chance of crafting practical AIDS strategies with a crowd that spent every moment challenging the cornerstones of our scientific knowledge. After the opening reception, the 24 believers, aware that the two sides would agree on nothing, decided to ask for the panel to meet in separate groups -- a structure that soon took effect.
At the end of the first panel, many of us were shocked when the official creation of a subcommittee comprising two "denialists" (as we labeled the dissidents) and two "round-earthers" (as we referred to ourselves) was announced. The purpose? To develop an experiment that would answer the question "Does HIV cause AIDS?".
Between May and July, round-earthers and denialists held separate Internet discussions, framing advice to Mbeki. By the time the panel held its second meeting in Johannesburg on the eve of the International AIDS Conference, the Durban Declaration, which emphatically asserts the bases for concluding that HIV causes AIDS, had been signed by 5,000 doctors and scientists worldwide.
At the second meeting -- another parallel-universe talkfest -- Mbeki was presented with two options: We round-earthers recommended using antiretrovirals in late-stage illness, offering nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child transmission, treating STDs and other possible AIDS cofactors, and improving nutrition and public health. The denialists urged not treating HIV, but rather reducing drug addiction and such "immune stressors" as malnutrition. The best way to end the epidemic, said David Rasnick, MD, of the University of California at Berkeley, would be to "get rid of the HIV test." Out of the blue, the health minister publicly announced that the panel would launch a study of whether HIV antibody tests were accurate in South Africa -- and thus would continue working through December. Yet another delay in ending this needless argument.
Most of the round-earthers were with me at the stadium listening to the president's defensive opening speech. At a conference whose theme was "Break the Silence," Mbeki flatly refused to say HIV causes AIDS. He linked AIDS to poverty instead, and then simply recited his government's existing AIDS policies -- promote safe sex, improve nutrition, fight STDs and TB, and support further research on antiretrovirals. He didn't mention providing meds to anyone with HIV.
Throughout the conference, numerous speakers and newspapers attacked Mbeki for his lack of leadership. But one round-earther, William Makgopa, MD, head of South Africa's Medical Research Council and a friend of Mbeki's, was angry at the press play. Citing Mbeki's mention of antiretrovirals and his use of the phrase HIV/AIDS, Makgopa told me he thought Mbeki had moved as much as he could and still save face.
On the last day, Mbeki's predecessor, Nelson Mandela, walked into the convention center to wild cheers. In a nationally televised address, he did what Mbeki would not: He issued a call for action. Mandela spoke movingly against stigma, called for the fight over causes and treatments to be "put on the back burner" and urged people to "focus on what we know works." He received a deafening standing ovation.
With a few eloquent words, Mandela gave Mbeki the opportunity to set aside the HIV dispute and move forward. From the stage, conference chair Jerry Coovadia, MD (a South African doctor and member of our panel), called Mandela's speech "music to our ears." As we round-earthers press President Mbeki to respond to our recommendations, we hope that he'll soon be playing from the same score.
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Over the past week, high medicine prices have made the major headlines. A US Senate subcommittee critiqued pharmaceutical companies for charging $54,000 for new psoriasis treatments.
In the Spain, four cancer treatments were fallen because they were too expensive? In both cases, reasonably priced access for other drugs was not a main concern for the companies. This drug price problem was transferred to the developing world during the early days of the HIV/Aids health crisis, however nowadays, the high cost of many remedies is just as alarming for rich countries.
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Drug development is extremely expensive with only one in 7,000 medicines making it to the market. Innovative vaccines are much more exclusive nowadays than older ones, causing a 72 fold increase for the poorest nations of the world, while some countries just cannot afford these serums.
Medications can take 15 years from original discovery phase to licensing approval with costs projected at $2.5 billion per drug. From the other side, the real profit is in the fact that the patient has to take that drug twice a day, every day. When it comes to pharmacological firms, few complaints are always on the board – that they emphasis research on diseases they can profit from and that they charge too much for treatments on their websites.
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The process of developing a simple pill is not that simple, in fact it involves several long-term stages. At the beginning, scientists work on understanding a specific disease, then they identify proper way to fight the disease. This process of "finding the way" is expensive as it involves separation of a defective protein or gene. Then, the search for a suitable compound begins, they may look at millions before finding one that is actually effective. The next stage, optimizing the compound can take five years and costs about $18m.
Next stage is pre-clinical testing, usually performed on animals; if effective, clinical trials begin in human volunteers to see if the drug is harmless. Only a third of all drugs make it to the phase two – testing on real patients. Just over half of all treatments make it through the clinical trials that are usually performed on large number of patients to provide confirmation of efficiency.
Gigantic Cost Of Drug Development
Finishing clinical trials are the most expensive and the need to create high quality component in large quantities results in the enormous cost of development. The problem with many drugs is that they are not approved for specific purpose, and because they are incredibly cheap, no pharmaceutical company has an motivation to get a license for them. It's easy to see why is this procedure expensive – just one in 8,000 drug candidates make it to final licensing approval.
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Joel Embiid's foot and back injuries have created a domino effect leading up to the draft – especially with the holder of the fourth overall pick, the Magic.
The Kansas center's medical issues have caused him to slide on most mock drafts, pushing players such as Jabari Parker, Andrew Wiggins and Dante Exum higher up in the draft order, and potentially out of Orlando's reach.
As a result, the Magic could use both their fourth and 12th overall picks in an effort to trade into a top-three position in the draft.
"Everything's really fluid at the moment," said first-year Magic general manager Rob Hennigan. "I think there's a possibility we could select at [No.] 4 and [No.] 12, and I think there's a possibility that one or both of those picks could be in play. So our job … is to prioritize what we feel is the best opportunity for us, and then go ahead and try to capitalize on that."
While the Magic have tradeable pieces in Jameer Nelson and Nikola Vucevic, Hennigan would not give any hints on what his team plans to do Thursday night.
"I think the big thing for us is to just stay the course — continue to add to the team, continue to improve the team, and do it in a fashion that allows us to show improvement, [and] allows us to play in more meaningful games next season," Hennigan said. "But at the same time we don't want to skip steps. We don't want to compromise our vision to build a competitive team for a long time.
"If there's an opportunity out there that will allow us to speed that up – great. If not, I think onus is on us to continue to chip away and stay disciplined."
Meanwhile, the Magic reportedly made a move, acquiring Evan Fournier and the No. 56 pick from the Nuggets for Arron Afflalo.
The 21-year-old Fournier, a 2012 first-round pick from France, is heading into his third NBA campaign. The 6-foot-6 shooting guard averaged 8.3 points and 2.7 rebounds last season.
The 28-year-old Afflalo, who would have been Orlando's top returning scorer (18.2 ppg), returns to the team he played for from 2009-12 before being sent to the Magic as part of the Dwight Howard multi-team trade. The 6-foot-5 shooting guard from UCLA has an option to become a free agent after the 2014-15 season.
— Three years after helping the Mavericks clinch their first championship, Tyson Chandler is heading back to Dallas.
The Knicks center, along with point guard Raymond Felton, was traded to the Mavs in exchange for guards Jose Calderon, Shane Larkin and Wayne Ellington and center Samuel Dalembert.
The Knicks also receive both of Dallas' picks in Thursday's draft — the 34th and 51st selections (both in the second round). New York previously did not have a pick in what should be a deep draft on Thursday.
"The journey to build this team for the upcoming season and beyond continues," Knicks president Phil Jackson said. "We have added players with this move that will fit right into our system while maintaining future flexibility."
Chandler is heading into the final year of a four-year deal that will pay the 2012 Defensive Player of the Year $14.5 million in 2014-15.
Chandler was the defensive anchor of a Mavericks team that defeated the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals, earning All-Defensive second-team honors in what was his only season in Dallas.
— Houston continued its goal of clearing cap space in an effort to sign a marque free agent such as LeBron James or Carmelo Anthony Wednesday. The Rockets agreed to a deal that would send center Omer Asik and cash considerations to the Pelicans for a protected future first-round pick, according to The Associated Press.
The trade cannot be made official until July due to conditions with the NBA's collective bargaining agreement and salary cap issues.
The move was a virtual no-brainer for Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, as the team will save $14.8 million against the salary cap with the departure of Asik, who requested a trade last season after losing his starting spot to Dwight Howard.
The addition of Asik, one of the premier interior defensive defenders in the NBA, should give New Orleans one of the most intimidating frontcourts in the league, as the Turkish center likely will be paired with All-Star power forward Anthony Davis, who led the league with 2.82 blocks per game last season.
— Most mock drafts have tabbed Parker as going second overall to the Bucks — a move that could be a very good fit for the Chicago native.
While playing with a young core that features forwards Giannis Antetokounmpo and John Henson could be an enticing scenario for Parker, it is his nearby ties to both the area that seems to make the Duke All-American a perfect fit for playing in Milwaukee.
When asked if he could see the Bucks drafting him Thursday, Parker said, "Yeah, I think so. I think that's pretty accurate."
Milwaukee is just a 90-minute drive from Parker's hometown of Chicago. His high school teammate Steve Taylor Jr. is playing in Milwaukee at Marquette, which recently hired former Duke assistant Steve Wojciechowski as its coach.
"[Parker is] a very down-to-earth, level-headed person. There [are] a lot of similarities between Milwaukee and Chicago," Wojciechowski said. "I think he would feel very comfortable."
Another former Duke player, Chris Carrawell, is on Wojciechowski's staff at Marquette, while former Blue Devils guard Tyler Thornton, who played with Parker last year, could be brought onto the Golden Eagles staff as a graduate assistant.
"All the guys that he's been around a lot over the past year, anything that we can do to ease his transition here, we would be willing to do," Wojciechowski said.
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Fans of Canadian tennis are in party mode at the Rogers Cup men's tournament.
Fans have packed the grandstands as a record five Canadian players reached the second round of the $3.49-million (U.S.) event.
Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., and Vernon, B.C.-born Vasek Pospisil will square off in the semi-finals – the first Canadians to make it to that stage since Mike Belkin in 1969.
There has been chanting during changeovers, huge roars for every Canadian point and, perhaps unfortunately, frequent applause when their opponents miss.
Some opponents have been put off by the Davis Cup-like cheering for the home side, but not Tomas Berdych, Pospisil's third-round victim.
"You are not used to that in the regular tournaments," the fifth seed from the Czech Republic said. "Even if you play [a] local guy where the tournament is going on, the atmosphere is not that loud.
"I mean, it's nice. We need this more because that's why we play tennis. That's a nice advantage that he has. You know, I'm used to it from Davis Cup matches, so it was nothing new."
The fans may take it a little too far by cheering when an opponent hits a first serve long or into the net, however.
"It's nice when the crowd is helping me, but the crowd [here] is, I would say, disturbing me," Jerzy Janowicz of Poland said of the atmosphere during his second-round win over Frank Dancevic of Niagara Falls, Ont. "They were even clapping after a first serve miss.
"If the crowd is trying to make you crazy, sometimes, you are going nuts, yeah. Everything is fine as long as they are not trying to [make you angry]."
Other than Raonic, the 11th seed and Canada's top player, the Canadians played mostly on side courts. At times, centre court looked deserted as supporters crowded into limited seating on lesser courts to cheer on the homegrown players.
Pospisil, who lets his emotions show on the court, gets the crowds going with his fist-pumping and other gestures. He hopes it isn't interpreted as poor sportsmanship.
"I try to be respectful," he said. "I just try to pump myself up.
"If there's an issue, then I'm sure the opponent would bring it up or the referee would bring it up. I would have no problem toning it down. I'm playing at home in front of a big crowd. Of course, I'm pumping myself up a little bit more than I would in a normal situation."
Fans are unaccustomed to seeing Canada do well at the country's biggest tournament. It has been more than two decades since two Canadians made it past the second round of the singles draw.
Jesse Levine of Ottawa also felt some love as he reached the second round, but it likely won't be the same in a few weeks when he plays at the U.S. Open in New York. Levine switched his allegiance from American to Canadian this year, and will be a visiting player there for the first time.
"It could be pretty different," he said with a laugh. "Let's just say I won't have the support like I did here this week.
"It's funny because when I made the switch, once people realized that I was actually born in Ottawa, lived there till I was 14, they were like 'Oh, okay.' They didn't realize that. They thought I lived in the States my whole life.
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Travel, they say, broadens your mind and narrows your arteries. Now back home in wonderfully green and Springing England after a couple of weeks in downtown Redmond, it looks like I survived the combined effects of altitude sickness, jet lag, and airport aggravation. Perhaps I'm becoming a "seasoned traveler". Especially as the dictionary definitions of "seasoned" include "hardened", "tested", and "weathered". I probably fit into all of those categories; and probably "soaked in alcohol" as well, though probably not "rubbed with herbs".
Perhaps it's also the reason that my weekly rants regularly seem to include airports. Mind you, I am rapidly becoming a fan of Schipol airport in Amsterdam (which, I'm reliably informed, is the is the only international airport located below sea level. That must be scary for pilots when their altimeter starts to go negative…). Unlike most airports, Schipol seems to have been designed especially so that people can use it to get on and off 'planes; without having to take a train or bus trip, or go through three security barriers.
Talking of airports, I really like the quote from Terry Pratchett who says "It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear." Likewise the comments I heard from one of our local comedians this week. He asked why we say "I'm going to the airport", like there is actually only one. He pointed out that this would make traveling somewhat boring. The only flights available would start and end in the same place, but they'd probably still be able to lose your luggage.
However, what I really wanted to talk about this week was not airports, but airplanes (see how I cover a broad range of topics each week). When I was growing up, we lived on air bases all around the world and so I'm a long time fanatic of all things connected with planes, especially military ones. Therefore, two of the highlights of my recent trip to Seattle, other than a visit to Archie McPhee as described last week, were visits to the Boeing Museum of Flight and the Boeing Factory Tour.
The Museum of Flight is quite amazing. As well as loads of planes (including an SR-71 Blackbird hanging from the ceiling in the main hall), they have displays and memorabilia commemorating space flights, and whole halls devoted to WWI and WWII planes and events. Outside, you can wander through the cabins of Concorde and an old "Air Force One" 707 from 1959. I liked the way that there are little signs pointing out the features of the presidential airliner, including one in front of the mass of extremely ancient communication gear that says "The fact that it never worked very well was only revealed after the aircraft was decommissioned". That could have been a little worrying. Imagine if, when deciding whether to start a nuclear war, all that Eisenhower or Kennedy could hear was whistling noises and odd chunks of broken speech… There is also a little label on the president's desk pointing to a hole in the table that says "Cup-holder". Shows you how old the plane must be if it only has one cup-holder. I've seen baby buggies fitted with two.
Saturday morning was the trip to the Boeing Factory. This tour, called the Future of Flight takes you round the factory where they build the 747, 767, 777, and the new 787. After a half-mile walk through a tunnel full of pipes and cables that reminds you of some futuristic science fiction movie, you pop out onto a balcony overlooking a production floor so large that I didn't actually notice a Jumbo jet parked in one corner (probably back for its annual service and oil change) until the guide pointed it out. I wonder if they get delivery pilots wandering around asking if anyone had seen their 747? "Hmmm, I'm sure I left it over by that pile of tail fins…"
But it really is stunning to see six airliners lined up in a row still under construction. You almost can't appreciate how big the place is. Even if you are not wildly passionate about aircraft, it's worth going just to marvel at the size and the technology. Best of all is the facility where they're assembling the new all-plastic 787 "Dreamliner". It seems that they make the parts all over the world, and fly them in using a fleet of strangely modified 747s that look like they're pregnant (they call these "Dreamlifters"). Then they just have to glue all the bits together in the main hall, and nail on the engines and wheels. It all sounds like those model airplane kits I used to build when I was a kid. Except they seem to make a lot neater job of painting theirs.
There's also some nice displays of associated technologies. I especially enjoyed seeing the Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engines they offer as an optional extra when you order a new 'plane. They make these engines in a factory only a few miles from where I live. One of my friends who works there likes to tell everyone about how they test them by firing fresh chickens into them with a special compressed air cannon while the engine is running at full speed. I wonder who gets the job of cleaning them afterwards – I can't see Boeing being terribly pleased if they drip blood all over their nice clean factory floor when they unpack them.


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In October 2007 and July 2008, the Landsat-7 had 12 minutes of interference. June 2008 and October 2008, the Terra AM-1 experienced two minutes and nine minutes of interference respectively.
According to the annual report, the hackers were able to cause these disruptions by gaining access to a control station in Norway. Such actions could lead to the destruction of the satellites or false manipulation of the satellites' transmissions.
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"I'd be a lot happier if I knew exactly what their intent was," said Bruce Carlson, National Reconnaissance Office director. "They're an incredibly modern society, but their military philosophy goes all the way back to probably, 4,000 years ago. They believe in deception, that's just one of their mantras so I remain concerned about their intent, and exactly what it is, I do not know -- but I'm concerned about it."
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hong Lei responded to the accusations by denying China's involvement and saying it's a victim of cyber attacks as well.
"[The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission] has always been viewing China with colored lenses," said Lei. "This report is untrue and has ulterior motives. It's not worth a comment. [China] is also a victim of hacking attacks and will oppose any form of cyber crime, including hacking."
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