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Unfortunately, scientists still don't understand what an HIV vaccine must do to confer immunity. Bolognesi hopes to develop a kind of booster shot that, although it might be less than 100% protective, could help the immune system hold the virus at bay until a truly effective vaccine is discovered...
...movies have catapulted catchphrases before--Get Smart launched Would you believe...? and Sorry about that into nationwide use in the 1970s--but this newer slang is different. It is supposed to confer upon its users an edge, sometimes a comedic but always a faintly combative edge. The era of Saturday Night Live that dished out Dennis Miller's "I'm outta here" and Dana Carvey's "Isn't that special?" fed a hunger for a renewable supply of ironic put-downs. But what may have started as a boomer/Xer shtick has now become a reflex common to all ages, from...
...prolific cells. Elsewhere, investigators are looking into using the anticaramelization drug pimagedine to help clear arteries and improve cardiac health. Remove heart disease from the constellation of late-life illnesses, and you add three years to the national life expectancy. The detection of a gene that seems to confer protection against Alzheimer's disease may help treat yet another scourge of the aged, currently afflicting 4 million Americans...
...doubt that many students will truly "celebrate" Columbus Day; most probably won't think twice about the seafaring explorer on Monday. Yet, this holiday does confer hero status on Christopher Columbus, and it reflects the values and historical consciousness of our society...
Your bathetic cover and cover story insinuate that a better mousetrap may somehow confer ownership of the Internet upon Microsoft's CEO. Why don't I, a Windows 95 and Netscape user, feel threatened by your ridiculous proposition that control of the information age rests on the outcome of a browser war between a benign James Barksdale and a threatening, Pattonesque Bill Gates? Let them build and offer their mousetraps to the market, which welcomes and benefits from the competition between the two. JOSEPH D. ADAMS Painter, Virginia Via E-mail...