Wistar Institute Vaccine Center scientists are creating new vaccines against pandemic influenza, HIV, and other diseases threatening global health. The Institute works actively to transfer its inventions to the commercial sector to ensure that research advances move from the laboratory to the clinic as quickly as possible. The Wistar Institute: Today's Discoveries - Tomorrow's Cures. On the web at http://www.wistar.org/.

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Across the Universe: 2-Disc Deluxe Edition (2008)

As a delivery system for injecting a new generation with Beatles music, Across the Universe is efficient as well as playful and ferocious — much like the Fab Four themselves. The movie is almost an opera: plot primarily conveyed through song. And while Universe's thin 1960s-era romance never achieves the emotional complexity of even so ''simple'' a song as ''All My Loving,'' the film sure knows how to present that melody with an energy and visual invention that make you adore the tune all the more.

We TV fans already knew that Universe's female lead, Evan Rachel Wood, had a beautiful voice from the few times she sang on the ABC series Once and Again. The rest of the lesser-known cast, meanwhile — particularly Wood's romantic interest, played by Jim Sturgess — have expressive instruments that only occasionally succumb to the Broadway-style belting that characterizes so many movie musicals.

Fires hit rain-starved Carolinas, Va.

The high winds and wildfires caused both Democratic presidential hopefuls — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama — to cancel appearances scheduled in Roanoke, Va. Virginia's presidential primaries are on Tuesday. Thousands of customers in the region still had no electricity because of damage caused by the fires and wind.

On Native Ground

The Administration's reaction to this assessment was to downplay the report and try to come up with alternative ways of measuring progress.

Congress will be told that violence is down in Iraq, even though the first six months of 2007 have been the deadliest for U.S. troops and the civil unrest that plagues most of Iraq has not abated.

Congress will be told that it really isn't that big a deal that the Iraqi parliament can't agree on oil revenue sharing, holding provincial elections or de-Baathification of the government.

Congress will be told that the Administration was unable to foresee that the benchmarks set for the Iraqi government would not be met - just like it couldn't foresee jetliners being flown into skyscrapers or that the levees in New Orleans would fail. Besides, those benchmarks were unrealistic, anyway.

Area kids of all ages ring in Halloween season

BRAD HORN/Nevada Appeal Jon and Sharry Goeschi sit in front of their home at 670 Occidental Drive on Friday evening. Jon is a senior tech at Hodges Transportation and Sharry is a CNA and RN for a hospice company in Reno. Jon Goeschi starts decorating his home for Halloween on Oct. 1.

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