Word: 1980s
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Another of Gates' vacation companions is Ann Winblad, the software entrepreneur and venture capitalist he dated during the 1980s. They met in 1984 at a Ben Rosen-Esther Dyson computer conference and started going on "virtual dates" by driving to the same movie at the same time in different cities and discussing it on their cell phones. For a few years she even persuaded him to stop eating meat, an experiment he has since resolutely abandoned...
Paris in the early 1980s turned out to be the perfect place to study AIDS. The patients were men, women, European, African. So few were homosexual that French doctors were not that distracted by the idea that this was a "gay plague." To them, it was merely a sexually transmitted disease. So they turned to Dr. Montagnier, a noted virologist at the Pasteur Institute, to find the cause. By 1983 his team had isolated a new human retrovirus. Their results, published in Science, were largely ignored. Then, in 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo announced that he had discovered the virus. Only...
Working in Gallo's lab at the National Institutes of Health in the late 1980s, Wong-Staal discovered why HIV is so deadly. It is an extremely changeable virus that rarely makes a perfect copy of itself. Among the resulting mutants are viruses that can resist drugs and render conventional vaccines worthless...
...more effective alternative is prevention, through public education and safe-sex programs. Such efforts have made some progress in recent years. In Uganda, which in the mid-1980s was the first African country to launch a genuine anti-AIDS campaign, billboards and government warnings appear to be paying off: HIV infections among young women dropped 35% between the periods 1990-1993 and 1994-1995. Elsewhere in Africa, however, and in some parts of Asia, similar programs have stalled, due to a combination of poverty, official indifference and, at times, paranoia. As a result, public understanding of even the most basic...
...brokerage and investment-banking firms and their employees are whooping it up with perfectly rational exuberance: they are closing the books on their most profitable year ever. Year-end bonuses will surpass even those of the best years of the junk-bond infused, too-much-is-never-enough 1980s. "It's obscene," admits a bond trader, "unless you're on the receiving...