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...making any victory speeches last week in Amsterdam, where more than 11,000 scientists and other experts gathered for the Eighth International AIDS Conference. The mood was somber, reflecting a decade of frustration, failure and mounting tragedy. After billions of dollars of scattershot albeit intensive research and halfhearted prevention efforts, humanity may not be any closer to conquering AIDS than when the quest began...
Bewilderment reached a new level in Amsterdam, where scientists reported cases of people who have an AIDS-like condition but have not been found to be infected with HIV. That frightening revelation raised the possibility that a new AIDS virus is emerging. Another theory, suggested by France's Dr. Luc Montagnier, who first discovered HIV, is that the strange cases were caused by one or more mutant forms of HIV that were altered too radically to be detected by standard blood tests...
...biggest surprise in Amsterdam was the talk about a new kind of AIDS. Dr. Jeffrey Laurence of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center described five instances of people who suffer from an AIDS-like illness and yet bear no trace of HIV anywhere in their body. When a similar case was reported at last year's AIDS conference in Florence, it was dismissed as a fluke. This year several scientists in the audience stood up to tell of other cases of non-HIV AIDS, bringing the total to about 30 -- a number that is small but impossible to ignore...
...National Gallery's exhibition, previously shown to packed galleries in Berlin and Amsterdam, is meant to explain the committee's methods and make the case for their soundness. It consists of two sections. In the first are 51 paintings now agreed to be indubitably by the master -- the finest "pure" Rembrandt show in memory. The second consists of a dozen "Rembrandts" now assigned to artists who worked with him; each of these is shown with two or three other paintings known to be by that pupil. In all, it is a wonderfully illuminating show, and it makes an unanswerable case...
...should be happy to give 10 years of my life," said Vincent van Gogh to a friend as they were gazing at Rembrandt's Jewish Bride in Amsterdam in 1885, "if I could go on sitting here in front of this painting for a fortnight, with only a crust of dry bread for food." This (more or less) describes the fate of Rembrandt's own apprentices. The Jewish Bride (circa 1665) is Rembrandt through and through; but many Rembrandts are not, for the simple reason that (contrary to romantic legends of his poverty and his rejection by the stuffy bourgeoisie...