Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decade with despair, the foreboding sense that nothing could beat AIDS--has finally been exorcised. If any one person can be credited with having presided over that rite, it is Dr. David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City. Starting in the early 1990s, he and others focused on the very first stages of HIV infection, hoping to learn what the body does right in fighting the virus and how to strengthen that response. What Ho and his colleagues have learned has fundamentally changed the way scientists think about...
...same time, the human defensive perimeters were crumbling. Underfunded prevention programs, along with excessive antibiotic use that led to drug resistance, were allowing diseases like TB, dengue fever, bacterial meningitis, yellow fever, cholera, malaria and even the dreaded plague to return. By the early 1990s there was a panicky feeling in the air that the microbes were exacting their revenge--and that humanity could do very little about...
Public Morals (CBS) From Steven Bochco, a would-be Barney Miller for the 1990s...
...would invite Indiana Governor Evan Bayh to give the keynote address Tuesday night. Since taking office in 1989, Bayh has often had an easier time working with G.O.P. legislators than with his own Democratic allies as he set new records for fiscal stringency: no tax hikes in the 1990s and the biggest budget surplus in state history. A shining New Democrat, Bayh is expected to challenge Senator Dan Coats in 1998 for the seat Bayh's father held for three terms...
Ironically, diplomatic intervention in both countries in the early 1990s triggered the bloodiest massacres to date. A U.N.-backed campaign to secure power sharing for Rwanda's Tutsi minority provoked Hutu extremist politicians to conceive a plan that would rid the country of all Tutsi, even the young. To incite peasants into murdering their neighbors, Hutu leaders played on historical fears of a return to Tutsi hegemony and capitalized on a uniquely hierarchical social structure, in which peasants obey their chiefs however chilling the command. Competition for land in what has traditionally been Africa's most densely populated region further...