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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nearly lost in the short-lived uproar over the French findings was Chermann's belief that the insects may offer valuable clues to a central riddle. The AIDS virus does not appear to reproduce in insects, he said; if scientists could find out why, they could perhaps develop an AIDS treatment. Such a solution is a long way off, though, and the prognosis for AIDS victims remains grim. Their comforts must be derived chiefly from the effort to live as normally as possible in the face of a ticking clock -- an exhausting enough business without prejudice or the threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: AIDS: Prejudice and Progress | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...polypropylene, adds gravel and lime, concrete containment walls, aeration tubes and fans. When he is finished, he will cover the corn with plastic held down by old tires. He does not want to keep the corn that way longer than a few months. If he does,"hot spots" will develop where some corn decomposes, then insects will attack. While he is steward of those half-million bushels, he will probe and test constantly. His nose may be his best insurance. "I can smell bad corn," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Harvest | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...need new markets," insists Ed Laskowski, who farms in Carlock. He wants to see the Federal Government launch a more aggressive export policy and help develop more acceptance in the U.S. for corn sweeteners and gasohol. Meanwhile, like his neighbors, Laskowski is readying his combine with mounting excitement, replacing chains and belts, building up the snapping rolls on the combine's headers, which grab and chew up the cornstalks and separate the ears. When the weather is good, Ed will work into the night; his wife Judy will sometimes climb up in the cab with him, and they will nibble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Harvest | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...capita annual income of $820, more than four times that of Africa's poorest countries. Strong economic ties to the U.S. and other Western countries have further enhanced Cameroon's well- being. An enduring link with France, one of its many former colonial overseers, has enabled the country to develop its oil reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cameroon the Lake of Death | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Ford and Coleman both argued that the federal government has become overburdened with responsibilty and that the states should try to develop local solutions to their problems...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: It Takes Two to Tango | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

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