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...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 after a bitter legal battle did the two scientists agree to share credit for the discovery. Today Montagnier promotes AIDS research and treatment centers in Africa...
...Omuga, this year's good news on AIDS underscores a bitter truth: the new combination therapies are of little use to 90% of the people suffering from the disease. In Africa, India, Thailand and to a growing extent Central and Eastern Europe, the treatment's price tag of up to $20,000 a year puts it way beyond the grasp of all but the superrich. "With this discovery, the AIDS gap only becomes wider," laments Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the U.N.'s AIDS program. To most AIDS researchers, it has become painfully obvious that drugs of any kind...
...news is promising. Many children are rebounding. But conducting those tests is complicated, since most protease inhibitors are available only as capsules, not in liquid form, which is more suitable for kids. At St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, researchers open the capsules and mix the bitter medicine with food. "This is not the best way to do it," says Dr. Walter Hughes, who heads the AIDS clinical-trial unit. "But if you have a child who is going to die in six months, you take those chances...
...back! Steve Jobs is returning to Apple, the company he co-founded in 1976 in a California garage with Steve Wozniak and then left in a bitter dispute 11 years ago. Apple has announced that it is buying Jobs' NeXT Software Inc. for $400 million and bringing Jobs himself in to help buttress the combined company against the depredations of competitor Microsoft...
...brief and unhappy 14 months. And he wasn't departing to take over Sony's troubled entertainment empire, as had been rumored. Simply put, he was out of a job. "There are even people who don't like him who feel sorry for him," said one of his bitter enemies, who added that he was not among them...