New drug battles avian influenza
By Maureen Backman and Kathryn Minnick | Nov. 12, 2006A new drug recently discovered by UW-Madison researchers has the potential to prevent avian influenza infections in humans.'
A new drug recently discovered by UW-Madison researchers has the potential to prevent avian influenza infections in humans.'
Even though the Badgers were able to put three goals up on the board Saturday, it still wasn't enough to salvage a point for the weekend as they followed Friday's 2-0 loss to Denver with another loss, a 4-3 overtime heartbreaker.'
In Sunday's win over Mercer, the UW men's basketball team demonstrated what needs to happen for them to be successful this season.'
Their father gives two Moroccan children a .270-caliber rifle to go hunt jackals. Once alone on the nearby cliffs, the youngest shoots at a tour bus, seriously wounding an American woman (Cate Blanchett). The nearest hospital is four hours away, so the bus detours to a remote village where her husband (Brad Pitt) begs for aid from the U.S. Embassy. This incident provides the narrative center of Alejandro GonzA¡lez IAA¡rritu's ""Babel.""
This week's News of the Weird features some \smooth"" criminals.'
Emily Pomeranz, a UW-Madison junior, is still recovering from her summer internship in New Mexico. '
Homosexuality is becoming more acknowledged and more accepted every day in society, if not yet in the legal statutes. Fair Wisconsin may have come up short in 2006, but, sooner or later, a day will inevitably come when gay people will no longer be subject'
The wait is finally over. After four straight losses to Iowa — including a heartbreaking 20-10 loss in Barry Alvarez's last home game as head coach — the Badgers came up with a 24-21 win Saturday over the Hawkeyes in Iowa City.'
\Out of boredom during last year's holidays, I decided to borrow a couple of DVDs from my relatives whom I was visiting,"" writes Julia Shiplett. ""And because my grandparents are not the most technologically inclined people, I had no other choice but'
They join with different majors, have different career goals and come from different military branches. But UW-Madison's Reserve Officer Training Corps students have one aspect in common—passion.
When ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"" was in theaters, Kate Winslet compared Charlie Kaufman to Shakespeare and repeatedly referred to him as the greatest writer of our generation. After only a handful of films, not only has Kaufman reinvented the meta-movie; with ""Being John Malkovich,"" ""Adaptation"" and ""Eternal Sunshine"" (ignore ""Human Nature""), he's been responsible for three of the weirdest, and best, movies ever made. If you doubt his enormous talent in the slightest, watch what happens when others try and mimic his inimitable style. First we had ""Eternal Sunshine"" director Michel Gondry's ""The Science of Sleep,"" which was equal parts eccentric and irritating, and now we've got Marc Forster's ""Stranger Than Fiction,"" a somewhat engaging existential romp that, despite a wonderful central performance from Will Ferrell, never quite manages to come together.
Senior guard Kammron Taylor paced the Badgers in the first half, and senior forward Alando Tucker led them in the second as UW went on to a 72-48 victory over the Mercer Bears.
The UW Roman Catholic Foundation filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the UW System Board of Regents and four UW-Madison administrators, claiming the university is discriminating against the organization on the basis of religion.'
Snow will eventually fall this winter regardless of Mother Nature's spiteful reminders this week of the warmth of summer. The week's unseasonably warm weather brought shorts and Frisbees out of storage for only a brief moment it seems, as four'
Madison will see a downtown Veterans Day parade for the first time in 30 years Saturday.
Remedy of a $20 million budget deficit was the focus of a Coalition for Affordable Public Education town hall meeting Thursday. '
The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee reheard an American Indian student organization's budget Thursday night, deciding to give the organization all of its originally proposed funding for the 2007-'08 academic '
At the UW System Board of Regents November meeting Thursday, Regents focused on Milwaukee's public health, how the university is helping the city meet those needs and difficulties the UW System is facing retaining faculty due to its inability to mee'
Campus could soon feel consequences from the passage of the gay marriage ban, administrators and student leaders said of the ban's approval Tuesday. '