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Under the fold, the Post calls a foul on Bill Bradley for reneging on his promise to play a chivalrous campaign game; the Democratic hopeful has taken verbal jabs at his competitor Al Gore recently.
--Pugnacious presidential hopeful Alan Keyes explains why he enjoys being a losing candidate in the Republican primary race.
I give the New York Times headline; you give a one-sentence summary of the story: "Presidential Hopeful Displays Humanity."
The Insider doesn't note a couple of key, maybe hopeful ironies.
The PLoS Medicine editors state in hopeful language that the Lassa fever vaccine was successful in four monkeys, and, thus, is a suitable agent for human study [2].