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When Ronald Reagan was running for President, he deflected questions about how he would conquer Government waste by pointing with pride to a program he had used in California: sending flying squads of top businessmen into the state's agencies on missions against inefficiency. To tackle the problem at the federal level, Reagan appointed a similar task force early last year under the direction of J. Peter Grace, 70, chairman of the conglomerate W.R. Grace & Co. Last week the group made public its final batch of findings. Its pointed revelations of wasteful practices were greeted within the Administration with...
...giant caverns look as if they might be the site for a villainous Ian Fleming scheme wherein a Dr. No or a Goldfinger concocts a plan to conquer the world, only to be thwarted in the end by a quick-thinking James Bond. The caves in the Kansas City area actually serve a far more tranquil purpose: commerce. More than 3,000 people are at work for 170 companies 110 ft. to 200 ft. below the gently rolling scene on the surface...
...special calling it is to track invisible killers, to identify mysterious illnesses that erupt from nowhere to menace life and health. Today an elite cadre of these experts?pathologists and epidemiologists, assisted by a larger army of lab technicians and doctors?are coordinating their skills in an effort to conquer a new threat: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, the confounding killer known as AIDS...
...struggle to conquer such epidemics, and the fear they spread, is the work of a special breed. They are spiritual descendants of Dr. John Snow (1813-58), who tracked the incidence of cholera during the London epidemic of 1831 and stemmed further devastation by shutting down one of the city's water pumps. In the past few decades, his followers have significantly improved the quality of life. In much of the world they have virtually eliminated the threat of such onetime plagues as polio, smallpox, cholera and diphtheria...
Despite the concern about the death and suffering of its victims, and despite the lack of any solution so far, health officials are optimistic that science will eventually conquer AIDS. "We've beaten other diseases, and we're determined to beat this one too," says HHS Secretary Heckler...