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Raustalia sizes up John McCain, the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict, and the Kyoto Protocol.
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Kal Raustiala: I don’t imagine the International Criminal Court ruling over Americans.
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The Bush administration has weakened international codes of conduct from Guantanamo to Iraq, says Raustiala.
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Raustalia addresses the two most common concerns about international law.
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Americans are particularly threatened by the loss of national sovereignty.
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The depth and breadth of international law.
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In the future, steroids will become more advanced, and more specific, says ESPN’s Shaun Assael.
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There are problems associated with enhancement drugs beyond just mood swings.
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Steroids are in almost every sport, and while not physiologically addictive, are difficult to stop using.
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Steroids have been popular since 1960.
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Pro sports should follow an Olympics model and create an agency for enforcement of steroid policies.
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The meaning of environments are changing, Gosling says, from physical environments to virtual environments.
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Schlesinger and her colleagues, in conjunction with the Rockefeller University, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the NIH are working on a vaccine that directly targets dendritic cells.
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The Rockefeller University Professor on the hunt for an AIDS cure.
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“What became clear was dendritic cells orchestrate immunity, so they are the center of the immune response.”
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Schlesinger and her colleagues discovered that dendritic cells are a “fertile field for the replication of HIV.”