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TIME: Nevertheless, the Helms-Burton bill was dormant. The wisdom of the embargo was being openly debated...
...would like to express our support for the recent efforts of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 to improve the College's advising system. He has reinstated the dormant Committee on Advising and Counseling, for reasons which were outlined in the 1994 Report on the Structure of Harvard College...
Just the idea that HIV can be treated in its early stages is surprising, given what was, until quite recently, conventional wisdom about AIDS. For years scientists portrayed HIV as a shadowy saboteur that invaded the body and then immediately went into hiding, staying dormant for a decade or more. Indeed, the first stage of infection seemed so quiet that some people questioned whether HIV was truly the cause of AIDS...
...second and longest stage begins after the body has successfully swept the virus from the blood and trapped it in the lymph nodes. HIV doesn't lie dormant, however. It still churns out copies of itself. But the damage is limited because the immune system has activated two powerful defense mechanisms: antibodies, which surge through the blood neutralizing any HIV particles that seep out of the lymph nodes, and a second group of specialized white blood cells, called killer T cells, which attack and destroy infected tissue...
...REAL HOT ZONE In a grisly coincidence, last spring's plague movie Outbreak, about an Ebola-like virus hitting a California town, was echoed by a real-life outbreak of the dread virus in Zaire. Dormant for 16 years, the disease swept through the Central African country, causing gruesome hemorrhagic fevers and killing at least 244 people (many of them health-care workers) before going underground again. At year's end, Ebola resurfaced in western Africa, this time in the Ivory Coast and possibly Liberia...