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Hopes for an experimental vaccine sagged when Duke University's Dr. Dani Bolognesi and NCI's Dr. Robert Gallo, a co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, reported that tests on chimpanzees had failed. Chimps, one of man's closest relatives, are considered critical to vaccine research. The idea of a...
Put the two close together, and the fireworks begin. The monumental gravity of the neutron star raises such high tides on its companion that gases are torn wholesale from the white dwarf's surface and pulled into orbit around the neutron star, forming a so-called accretion disk. Some of...
Dismissing arid philosophers as "cold fish," Augustine was a passionate writer. This is especially evident in The Confessions, one of the masterpieces of ancient literature. The book is not only a pioneering autobiography but the forerunner of modern psychology and existentialism. It contains piercing self- examination of the soul ("You...
The 20th century has spawned some notions about comets that seem even more fantastic than the ancient myths. British Astronomers Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe have suggested that over hundreds of millions of years, primitive biological entities, perhaps even cells, developed within some comets. These may have been delivered to...
Ir'S AS THOUGH Willie's slurp were squashed into a shuffle and a whine. But Eddie's not an unlikeable guy; he's like an animated buffer zone. Eva, played with unself-conscious allure by Eszter Balint (formerly of the Hungarian Squat Theatre), is the film's discoverer of...