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...launching a biological attack on the virus. Their objective: the development of vaccines to prevent its spread and drugs to treat those already infected. But the AIDS virus is a formidable adversary. Because it can reproduce so rapidly, says Harvard's Haseltine, it can mutate frequently, changing its outer coat (the essential ingredient in making a vaccine) 100 to 1,000 times as fast as quick-changing flu viruses. As a result, he says, "trying to develop a vaccine for AIDS is like trying to hit a rapidly moving target." Scientists are now searching for segments of the coat that...
...Researchers have now identified the outer protein coat of the virus, a necessary step in developing a vaccine. But an actual vaccine remains a distant prospect...
...officer reported to the Faculty Club because of reports that an individual had rummaged through the coats in the coat room and removed several of them...
Sitting in the right field bleachers on Opening Night at Yankee Stadium, wearing four shirts and a heavy coat underneath my Trot Nixon jersey, I was able to observe Yankee fans in their natural, undisturbed habitat...
...Since taking her business home, Chanin has helped boost the local economy. About 200 contract employees now make each piece by hand. "One dress took 16 women three weeks to make," says Chanin, 43. "We might make one coat only 20 times. That means there are only 20 in the world, and each garment is handmade by someone different." That rarefied notion has splashed Project Alabama across the pages of Vogue, Elle and Vanity Fair and onto the racks of high-end retailers like L'Eclaireur in Paris and Barneys Japan in Tokyo. "We haven't invented anything new," explains...