According to his doctors, a Berlin man has been cured of HIV because of a stem cell transplant.

Doctors who carried out a stem cell transplant on an HIV-infected man with leukaemia in 2007 say they now believe the man to have been cured of HIV infection as a result of the treatment, which introduced stem cells which happened to be resistant to HIV infection.

The man received bone marrow from a donor who had natural resistance to HIV infection; this was due to a genetic profile which led to the CCR5 co-receptor being absent from his cells. The most common variety of HIV uses CCR5 as its ‘docking station’, attaching to it in order to enter and infect CD4 cells, and people with this mutation are almost completely protected against infection.

Among other things, the $4.5 billion measure provides more money to poor areas to subsidize free meals and requires schools to abide by health guidelines drafted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. To help offset the higher cost of including more fruits and vegetables, the bill increases the reimbursement rate for school lunches.

via Congress passes sweeping child nutrition bill – CNN.com.

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Really ready for that teleport machine.

Hidden Pixels recently rounded up the available CSS frameworks into a list. I happen to be evaluating CSS frameworks as well to find a flexible system to provide on a CMS I’m working on. The Hidden Pixels list isn’t very descriptive of the specific usage or value each framework has to offer, so I’ve provided a summary of each to make this a useful reference when evaluating the list.

The CSS presentation frameworks listed below provide the underlying CSS structure for typical web site needs. The idea behind most of these is that they provide rules for the kinds of markup and layout web designers do repeatedly. They may supply grid systems and typography support, but not all of these provide both. Most provide at minimum an Eric Meyer style CSS reset. I’ve divided the lists into separate the frameworks providing support for grid-based customizable layouts from the other types of systems.

Personally, I’m not fond of the one-size-fits-all approach to creating websites but a lot of designers swear by them.

First there were invaders in his house (the landlord, the ac guy and the plumber), then the gooshy was gone. Twas a situation not to be tolerated. The only thing tht helped was an immediate and continual application of full attention and pettins.

The ac guy said it must have frozen, he did top off the freon though. James (landlord) and the plumber went to get a new disposal. Yes, I gave him gooshy as soon as they left.