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...infant who received multiple transfusions at birth developed infections and other signs of AIDS. Some of the baby's blood came from a donor who was later diagnosed as an AIDS victim. As a result, blood-bank operators around the country are searching assiduously for a way to detect AIDS in blood...
...Oklahoma's Tinker Air Force Base, watchdogs programmed their computers to detect increases of 300% or more in the cost of spare parts for aircraft engines charged by the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group of United Technologies in fiscal year 1982. The results, said an auditor, were "staggering." Robert S. Hancock, an official of the Air Logistics Center near Oklahoma City, said that in just the one year, Pratt & Whitney's "repricing" policy had cost the Government "something on the order of $140 million." He termed the findings "only the tip of the iceberg" and contended that Pratt & Whitney...
...creating a specific protein. If a single gene is responsible for producing cancer, it must be a result of the protein that the gene creates. Researchers are just beginning to figure out what kinds of proteins oncogenes make. Once they do, scientists may be able to develop tests to detect tiny traces of these proteins; such tests could allow the diagnosis of cancer at a far earlier stage than is now possible. Identifying the proteins made by cancer genes will enable biologists to create antibodies that specifically attack cancer cells and, perhaps, to block the creation of those proteins, thus...
Another film about a pair of lovable oldies in the twilight of their days, starring two Hollywood legends who had never worked together before. Detect a trend here? From the same sentiments that poured forth On Golden Pond (box office to date: $118 million) comes another tear-duct wringer, called Right of Way, with Bette Davis, 74, and Jimmy Stewart, 74. In the made-for-cable TV movie, due out next year, Davis is stricken by a terminal illness, and Stewart, not wishing to continue alone, decides to end his life too. The match-up of the two stars seems...
...Barney Frank, a Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts. "You sit there, somebody hands you a check for $3,000, and you say 'Thank you.' " In the end, it is pressure from the voters that may limit the power of the PACs. Some lawmakers, like Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt, detect rumblings of reform. Says he: "There is a growing sense that the system is getting out of hand." - By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Evan Thomas/Washington, with other bureaus