Word: discoverer
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It was high noon in Bethesda, Md., home of the National Institutes of Health. The scene: a small French restaurant with hanging baskets and beamed ceiling. On one side of a table sat Dr. Robert Gallo, 47, a brash NIH scientist who started life as the son of a small...
Across the table sat Dr. James Curran, 39, a clean-cut epidemiologist with an advanced degree from Harvard. Curran heads the AIDS task force at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, where more than 100 researchers have been working to discover exactly what Gallo claimed to have found. To...
While scientists may bicker over who was first to discover the virus, the important news is that a breakthrough has finally been made in understanding the deadly AIDS epidemic. What matters, says Immunologist Allan Goldstein of George Washington University, "is that we now know the face of the enemy."
The French left elected a Socialist President in May 1981, only to discover that Mitterrand is neither a Marxist nor a
Civilization stinks. This is the message of virtually every nature-vj.-nurture parable to hit the screen lately, from Splash to Greystoke to this feral melodrama about the encounter between a group of Arctic scientists and a prehistoric man they find miraculously preserved in ice. Tenterhook anxiety builds in the...