Hi. I wish I could attribute the priorities and accomplishments of the three news items to our own country, the richest, most technically advanced and potentially remedial entity in history, instead of the opposite. All of which make the achievement of beleaguered, impverished Cuba all the more remarkable. We should applaud these accomplishments, but more importantly, keep that vision of possibility in mind as we struggle for change in our own country and a more equitable, peaceful world. Ed
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Prensa Latina, Havana http://www.plenglish.com Cuba to Produce Therapeutic Vaccines against Lung Cancer Havana, Jan 11 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will install new plants for the production of a vaccine against lung cancer, guaranteeing the continuation of clinical trials in the United States. The assembly of three new plants will take place within six months to produce a therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer, according to Trabajadores local weekly. Dr. Gisela Gonzalez, who leads the project in the Molecular Immunology Center (CIM) told press that her center is assembling one plant and the Genetic Immunology Center two. The Genetic and Biotechnology Immunology Center will produce the active ingredients of the EGF-P64K vaccine and the Molecular Immunology Center will make the final product, said Dr. Gonzalez who has been working on this project for two years. The plants will comply with the requirements demanded by United States to allow the clinical trials. The requirements are part of an agreement signed in 2004 by CIM and the US firm CANCERVAX, one of the main companies researching vaccines in the world. The CIM is currently working on two research projects against cancer. One is the stimulus of the immunology system with vaccines that produce antibodies against the disease. The other is the use of monoclonal antibodies to prevent the development of tumors, the CIM expert said. sus/ima/mor To subscribe: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr *** Agencia Cubana de Noticias (AIN) http://www.ain.cubaweb.cu Cuban Medical Scholarships Praised by Guatemalan Daily Havana, Jan 12 (AIN) A Guatemalan daily described the scholarships offered by the Cuban government to medical students from various Latin American nations as a notable example of cooperation. The newspaper, "Siglo XXI," highlighted the fact that the first 190 Guatemalan graduates from Havana's Latin American Medical School are returning to the Central American nation in August. More than 500 young people from that country are currently studying medicine in Cuba, states the Cubavision International website, which covered the story published in Siglo XXI. The Guatemalan publication says the homecoming of the graduates will greatly benefit the nation as the new doctors will serve the Guatemalan population for at least six years. The daily also maintains that the success of the Cuban cooperation project proves that you can help a country to overcome hardships by forming well-trained professionals without having to invest huge resources. This is the kind of agreement that people want, says the paper. It is authentic cooperation that contributes to development and above all comes without any conditions. To subscribe: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr *** Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit sent by Simon McGuinness - Jan 12, 2005 State of the World's Children: UNICEF, 2005 INFANT MORTALITY RATE IN THE AMERICAS (Selected Countries) COUNTRY.......MORTALITY RATE (per 1,000 Live Births) Canada............5 Cuba (2004).......5.8 United States.....7 Costa Rica........8 Chile.............8 Uruguay..........12 Argentina........17 Venezuela........18 Panama...........18 Colombia.........18 Mexico...........23 Ecuador..........24 Paraguay.........25 Peru.............26 Dominican Rep....29 Nicaragua........30 El Salvador......32 Brazil...........33 Guatemala........35 Haiti............76 Source: State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2005 MINSAP National Statistics Department To subscribe: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr ===================================================== NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===================================================== *** http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050112/w011232.html Associated Press January 12, 2005 U.S. ends search for Iraqi WMDs: finds no weapons, no capability of making them Washington - The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has quietly concluded without any evidence of the banned weapons that President George W. Bush cited as justification for going to war, the White House said Wednesday The Iraq Survey Group, made up of some 1,200 military and intelligence specialists and support staff, spent nearly two years searching military installations, factories and laboratories whose equipment and products might be converted quickly to making weapons. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said there no longer is an active search for weapons. "There may be a couple, a few people, that are focused on that" but that it has largely concluded, he said. "If they have any reports of (weapons of mass destruction) obviously they'll continue to follow up on those reports," McClellan said. "A lot of their mission is focused elsewhere now." Chief U.S. weapons hunter Charles Duelfer is to deliver his final report on the search next month. "It's not going to fundamentally alter the findings of his earlier report," McClellan said, referring to preliminary findings from last September. Duelfer reported then that Saddam Hussein not only had no weapons of mass destruction and had not made any since 1991, but that he had no capability of making any either. Bush, nevertheless, unapologetically defended his decision to invade Iraq. _______________________________________________ Rad-Green mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green *** From January 22 to February 26, 2005 our local 33 l/3 Gallery and Collective, 1200 N. Alvarado Street, in our own Echo Park, will have an exhibition of posters from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, a Center with over 45,000 posters, on a topic close to our concerns: We Shall Not Be Moved: Posters on Gentrification, Homelessness and Resistance. The opening reception is January 22, from 7 - 9 pm. Hours of the gallery: Monday - Sunday, 12:00 am to 9:00 pm. 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