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...cell's genetic machinery and orders it to produce copies of the virus, which escape to infect other cells. The victim cell is often killed in the process. But the AIDS virus is a so-called retrovirus and contains single-stranded RNA. Alone, RNA lacks the ability to conquer cells, but retroviruses carry an enzyme called reverse transcriptase. When the AIDS virus invades an immune-system T cell, the enzyme enables the viral RNA to convert to DNA, take over the cell's machinery, produce copies of itself and disable the cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Ray of Hope in the Fight Against Aids | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...here" response to every situation makes him a kind of audience surrogate. For Cameron, however, the Marines have another unstated use: "Their training and technology are inappropriate for the specifics, and that can be seen as analogous to the inability of superior American firepower to conquer the unseen enemy in Viet Nam: a lot of firepower and very little wisdom, and it didn't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Help! They're Back! | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...ways to shape Government programs so that they encourage, rather than discourage, self-help among the underclass. But as Moynihan noted, "We are grievously short of specific ideas." For the Democrats to regain the initiative on what has traditionally been one of their most important issues, the quest to conquer the problems of poverty in America, they will have to find ways to sharpen the ideas that they grappled with in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of New Approaches | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

Does love conquer all? The players, the director and the screenwriter would all like us to believe that it does, and by the film's conclusion, you probably will. Letter to Brezhnev won't change your concept of the cinema, poorly shot and spliced as it is, but it's a good hand-holder and thoroughly enjoyable...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Courting Communism | 6/26/1986 | See Source »

America's love of instantaneousness probably stemmed from its rush to conquer great distances, at first with the pony express and clipper ships, later with microwaves and satellites. In the consumer marketplace, speediness became an ever stronger selling point. The first mass-marketed instant coffee, the G. Washington brand, appeared in 1909. The next year Florist's Transworld Delivery started sending flowers by wire. The spirit of hustle permeated pop culture, from the World War II-era song lyric, "Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry," to the Road Runner cartoon character who always leaves Wile E. Coyote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in the Express Lane | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

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