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If you are looking for a primary care physician,
you'll need some good luck and a lot of perseverance, particularly if
you are on Medicare. There's a nationwide shortage of such generalists
as medical school graduates move into higher paid specialties. "I think
internists aren't very fashionable," says one physician. "It's viewed
as a not very exciting field."
The good news is that the AIDS epidemic has peaked.
The bad news is that we have had very little luck in developing an
effective AIDS vaccine. Many promising approaches have been tried, but
none has worked.
With millions of lives on the line, the Danforth Plant Science Center aims to create bumper crops of enriched food for Africans. Six hundred million Africans depend on cassava alone as their main
source of calories, but the nutritional value is low. An additional challenge for the center: making the
food taste good.
You think science is for eggheads, not for you? Maybe you'd rather watch "CSI"? Biology professor George Johnson takes a "CSI" story and walks you through the evidence, demonstrating how you can learn science from television when you pay attention.Editors' Picks
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Genital surgery for women increasing: More women opt for plastic surgery below the belt, sparking outrage among those who oppose the "medicalization of sex." l Time
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Inside a flu vaccine factory: What it's like to go viral -- a first person account from a former worker who has doubts about whether flu shots work all that well. l Newsweek
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Keep forgetting where you left the keys? It's not necessarly Alzheimer's. Sort out the symptoms and learn how to protect against memory loss with this package of stories. l Los Angeles Times
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Families go waaaaay back: A stone-age grave site discovered in central Germany suggests the nuclear family is at least 4,600 years old. The grave contains the remains of a man, woman and their two children
"Their unity in death suggests unity in life," researchers said in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.lAssociated Press
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Jazz with Jerome Harris
Video by Christian Cudnik
Jazz musician and educator Jerome Harris talks about the importance of teaching. See a larger version of this video and read a profile of Harris.
Brain Surgery Breakthrough
St. Louis pioneers a new technology allowing doctors to visualize the brain and its functions during surgery.
Produced by Al Wiman at the St. Louis Science Center for the St. Louis Beacon
Voices
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Editorial Cartoons
The presidential ransition still gets lots of attention, but the cartoonists are also looking at specific economic and social issues. Find the work of Scott Stantis, John Sherffius, Chris Britt, Marshall Ramsey and Mike Thompson inside.
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In the News
Posted 5 p.m. Mon. Nov. 17 - This weekend, nearly a hundred St. Louisans, many of them high school students, will travel to Fort Benning, GA to protest the School of the Americas. Among its graduates are some of Latin America's most notorious dictators, guilty of some of the continent's most savage human rights violations. Rachel Heidenry, who participated in the protest while a student at Nerinx Hall and Bard College, describes the experience and took the photographs that accompany the story and are in a slideshow at the end of the article.
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Law Scoop
Posted, 1:20 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 13 - Not often do the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court admit to such bafflement as they did on Wednesday when trying to decide if Pleasant Grove City, Utah has to add the 7 Aphorisms to the 10 Commandments in its city park.
The Lens
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Time for a celebration!
Today is the 80th birthday of one of Hollywood's most beloved creations: Mickey Mouse !
..while yesterday was the 30th anniversary of something they'd rather not talk about: Star Wars, The Holiday Special .
Giving Back
The Beacon wants to help you share the news about good deeds St. Louisans are doing. See our spotlight on those who are giving back.
The Beacon features links to the latest work by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.This Washington-based non-profit organization promotes in-depth international coverage of topics that have been under-reported, mis-reported - or not reported at all.
To see a list on our World news page, click here . The Pulitzer Center's founder is Jon Sawyer, former Washington Bureau chief of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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