Wednesday, July 10, 2002
New AIDS Drugs Face Curvy Road
Jordan LiteThe drug that could become available to patients soonest is called enfuvirtide, or T-20, one of a subclass of entry inhibitors called integrase inhibitors. Developed by Durham, North Carolina, biotech firm Trimeris and manufactured by Hoffmann-LaRoche, T-20 works by blocking HIV from fusing with — and therefore entering — uninfected cells.
Passenger taken off flight for drunk pilot joke
An air passenger who jokingly questioned whether the plane's pilots were sober was removed from an America West flight on Monday, one week after two of the airline's pilots were arrested in Miami on charges of operating an aircraft while drunk.
Day 23: Providing text equivalents for images
Mark PilgrimEvery single image on every single page of your site should have a text equivalent, so-called "alt text", specified in the alt attribute of the
<img>tag.
