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...infected after suffering wounds, and they seem to be cancer-free. Now a team of scientists, working with dogfish taken from the Gulf of Maine, think they may have the answer: a powerful antibiotic found in virtually every cell of the shark's body. The new compound, a chemical cousin of cholesterol, does not belong to any known class of antibiotics, according to a report published by the National Academy of Sciences. But it is surprisingly effective against a broad range of microbes, including fungi, bacteria and parasites. A synthetic version of the dogfish drug is now being tested against...
...green and pleasant land is still surprisingly intact. In P.D. James' THE CHILDREN OF MEN (Knopf; $22) the country is ruled by a dictator who has canceled most civil liberties. But the middle class still prospers, and Oxford shelters scholars like Theo Faron. Because he is the strongman's cousin, he is approached by a pretty member of a dissident group. Her fellows turn out to be cliches, and, of course, she gets pregnant. Sci-fi is a cottage industry, but it is not the terrain of James, who presides over mysteries. Usually a novelist of daunting confidence, she cannot...
...STRAIN OF THE AIDS VIRUS EMERGED, threatening to ravage the world like its better-known cousin? That looked possible last summer, when scientists at an international AIDS conference reported on patients who had strikingly low levels of CD4 cells -- the same immune-system cells that are destroyed in AIDS sufferers -- but were not infected by the HIV virus...
...Inaugural ball with the high-minded goal of honoring "the young Americans who voted in the 1992 presidential election." The chance to engender goodwill also prompted Time-Life Video to produce a taped account of the week's highlights, with the profits going to the Inaugural Committee, while corporate cousin HBO is paying for the right to air a Sunday-night special featuring performances by such stars as Aretha Franklin and Jack Nicholson. Scores of companies have been asked to underwrite everything from private parties for the ascendant clans with "democrat" in their names (the Democratic Leadership Council, the Democratic...
...HOMEGROWN COUNTRY STORYTELLER commences with Cousin Sarah's cork leg, then ramifies: she had a great-uncle whose daughter ran off with a trombone player, who had a half-sister who . . . T.R. Pearson's skilled and artful variant moves in great, loopy spirals of anecdote, so that every now and then the apparently aimless stagger of narration swirls briefly to within sight of the original, stated objective. In the case of CRY ME A RIVER (Henry Holt; $22), this is the murder of a cop in a Southern town, told bemusedly by one of his colleagues. This sixth novel...