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Another potential solution is being explored by Dr. Allan Goldstein at George Washington University. Goldstein has found that it is possible to use a protein from the core of the AIDS virus to immunize laboratory animals. This protein, unlike those in the outer coat, does not vary much from one strain of the virus to the next. Says Goldstein: "We think we've overcome the problem of a constantly changing virus." Even if he has, it remains to be shown that this or any other vaccine preparation can actually protect people from infection. Predicts Dr. Anthony Fauci, director...
...manifold social evils associated with AFDC have only been getting worse. Poverty rates have generally risen since the late '70s, and the rise has been especially rapid among the children the system was designed to help. Welfare mothers who rear children who in turn go on relief are a core element of the so-called underclass. David Ellwood, a Harvard authority on welfare, figures that a quarter of all AFDC recipients have received benefits, off and on, for ten years or more; at any one time they constitute a startling 60% of all recipients. The rise of illegitimate births, especially...
Control Data could afford to support its social conscience during good times, but when the computer industry slumped in the early 1980s, the company nearly collapsed from the weight of its commitments. Control Data's distracted managers were neglecting the firm's core technologies, like data-storage devices, while competitors raced ahead. The company's worldwide share of the market for disk drives reportedly plunged from 55% in 1980 to about 20% in 1985. The computer maker feverishly began cleaning house in 1985, not long before its financial squeeze. The company proceeded to discard some 20 businesses that were...
Smith, who says he thinks this year's council has been effective, adds that "this year I think the council's been less political." Part of the reason, he says, was that of the core group of about 10 "activists" who had formed most of Offutt's opposition last year, only one has returned, and "he's not as antagonistic...
...have a Harvard Mafia running our country?" queried a recent edition of The Philippine Star, a Manila-based newspaper. Four of Aquino's cabinet members, a Supreme Court Justice and the director of the Central Bank are among a core of Harvard-trained high-ranking officials in Philippine President Corazon Aquino's government...