“People thought this was going to be a slam dunk.”
Connie Celum of the University of Washington, Seattle, on a study that dashed hopes that taking the anti-herpes drug acyclovir would protect against HIV infection (San Francisco Chronicle, 5 February)
“You wouldn’t establish a settlement in a stark, fearful place like this.”
Mary Voyatzis of the University of Arizona on pottery shards found on the summit of Mount Lykaion in Greece. The site, close to a geological fault, is thought to have been a religious shrine 900 years before Greek-speaking people arrived to establish an altar to Zeus (The New…
