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Entire villages suspected of supporting separatist rebels are razed, forcing thousands of men, women and children into crude refugee camps. When the former Soviet leader decided to set up a World Governance Forum, the former Australian prime minister was among the politicians he invited to join him. What she didn't know was that at the New Start Health Camp she would be asked to pick up a hoe, work up a sweat - and, literally, farm. Drug halts AIDS progress in apes Researchers at the pharmaceutical drugs company Merck say one of their experimental AIDS vaccines is able to protect monkeys from progressing to the damaging stage of the disease even though it does not protect the animals from initial infection with the AIDS virus. Somebody living today will still be alive, active and alert come 2150, predicts Steve Austad, a leading American researcher into the biology of aging.