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Because of the uniqueness of the virus, syas Hirsch, researchers are forced to use two distinct strategies to create a vaccine. The first approach is the classical one, the strategy used for polio, mumps and measles (please see main story...
...trying not to masturbate (last season's Emmy-winning episode The Contest, in which the characters competed to be "master of your domain"). In reality, the show is more densely textured, elaborately plotted and psychologically astute than any other comedy on TV. It is, moreover, the product of two distinct but oddly congruent comic personalities: David, 46, a dour ex-stand-up comic and writer (he appeared in ABC's failed late-night show Fridays and spent one season writing for Saturday Night Live, where only one of his sketches ever aired), and Seinfeld, 39, a star who is just...
...reacted to these crude and, in most eyes, culturally negligible designs in the way an earlier American stylist, Elie Nadelman, had responded to anonymous folk art. He found beauty and a sort of wry pathos in them, along with a disregarded but distinct sense of style. Lichtenstein wasn't the first artist to react to American comic strips. Miro is plausibly said to have been influenced by George Herriman's now classic Krazy Kat. Apart from Stuart Davis, however, he was the first American artist to do so, because American artists had always been rather ashamed of their own vernacular...
...robust as investments in mutual funds based in U.S. stocks have been, their growth seems anemic compared with the boom in overseas funds. On average, foreign mutuals have soared nearly 30% so far this year. A distinct scent of euphoria surrounds "emerging markets" in Asia and Latin America, as U.S. money cascades in and pushes them to new heights. As this speculative bandwagon gathers speed, more investors clamber aboard. Americans plowed a record $7 billion into overseas funds in 1992, plus $21.7 billion more in the first nine months of this year. It's hard to argue with double-digit...
...song-and-dance people who own the riverboat theater are a bland and predictable lot, living through formula heartaches: economic ups and downs, marital tussles, the twinges of age, dreams of what might have been. By contrast, the mulatto singer Julie, who passes for white, has a much more distinct and provocative situation. She is a leading lady desired by every man. The fellow actor who marries her knows and accepts her ethnic identity -- a remarkable thing in the Deep South of the 1880s, yet never explored in the script. Her moments, superbly acted and sung by Lonette McKee, have...