Word: 1980s
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...working alone or in concert with others, fundamentally changed the way scientists looked at the AIDS virus. His breakthrough work in virology, beginning in the mid-1980s, revealed how HIV mounts its attack. His tenacious pursuit of the virus in the first weeks of infection helped show what the body does right in controlling HIV. His pioneering experiments with protease inhibitors helped clarify how the virus ultimately overwhelms the immune system. His work and his insights set the stage for an enormously productive shift in the treatment of AIDS away from the later stages of illness to the critical early...
...yearly stipend. To support his family, Ho started moonlighting in Mass General's walk-in clinics. It turned out to be the right time to be in that place too. "The clinics are where you see the flus, the colds, the common illnesses," Ho says. In the mid-1980s, however, he started seeing gay men with what appeared to be an unusually severe flu. They always got over their illness without any of the hallmarks of AIDS. Still, he wondered, could there be a connection? Could these flu-like ailments be the signs of the men's very first exposure...
Despite rising casualties, Washington kept tight purse strings on funding for AIDS research for much of the 1980s. By 1987, though, even Ronald Reagan knew that AIDS was a serious threat. The plague had encircled the globe, stretching from Africa to Asia. The antibody test revealed the presence of HIV in the blood supplies of the U.S., France and Japan. The FDA approved use of the antiviral drug AZT in a record 14 weeks...
...painting has "an odor of sulfur" about it. Indeed, the 25-in. by 31-in. canvas has a long, troubled history. Supposedly painted by the penniless artist just days before his suicide on July 27, 1890, the work was estimated at $40 million in the late 1980s. But in 1989 the French government declared it a "national monument" and forbade its exportation, thus torpedoing its worth on the international art market. Collector Jacques Walter auctioned it off to banker Jean-Marc Vernes for $11 million in 1992; he then sued the French government for "spoliating" its value, and, incredibly, Walter...
Ellwood and Bane have worked together for years. During the 1980s, they teamed up to work on a number or articles, including a well-known study of poverty in America...