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...Center garners almost as much attentionfor its other role--providing experimentaltreatment to current AIDS victims. That fallsunder the domain of Professor of Medicine MartinS. Hirsch, the Center's other co-director, whooversees the AIDS Clinical Testing Unit (ACTU),which is one of only 47 such government-fundedunits across the country...
...ACTU conducts clinical trials on HIV, aswell as some of the diseases that result from abroken-down immune system, to determine howpatients with AIDS can best be treated. Hirschsays although researchers are much closer tofinding a vaccine than they thought they would bea year ago, there is still a long...
...Actu'lly, th' funniest part of the show is th' costumes. I liked Weston's hobo outfit that makes him look like Emmett Kelly Jr., Wesley's jeans that sit too low in th' seat and that zip instead of button, Ella's sensible shoes with heels th' size of hockey pucks, Emma's cute little shitkickers and Ellis' golden drugstorecowboy suit. I 'specially liked what th' two thugs (Laurence Thomsen n' Eric Oleson) wear: plaid bellbottoms n' white chaps, respectively (n' the yo-yo is a nice touch, Laurence). Not too accurate--no self-respectin' Westerner would be caught...
...wide, equipped with very-high-frequency radio antennas and small, square infra-red scanners that work in tandem with radar to direct the killer toward its orbiting prey. The anti-satellite interceptor (ASAT) has a parabolic "dish" antenna that homes in on the target satellite and gets the ASAT - actu ally a space bomb - close to the target, where it detonates. The ASAT goes off like a super hand grenade, spraying the victim satellite with metal-piercing fragments. ASAT's main target would be the top U.S. spy satellite: "Big Bird," a 10-ton reconnaissance craft that is vulnerable...
...statistical evidence of wealth was deceiving; the vast empire was actu ally as shaky and ready to col lapse as a 25-year-old model T trying to make its way through deep sand. Once the world's biggest automaker. Ford had seen its share of U.S. auto sales drop from 40% in 1930 to 21% in the first postwar year of car production. What was more, in 1946, Ford was losing money at such a clip-$55 million in six months-that even its vast reserves might soon be exhausted...