Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Three months later, although I have discovered that my roommate is definitely worthy of living in Emerson's old haunt, I am still thinking about the burden of tradition and achievement at this grand old university and how we, the fresh-faced members of the class of 2000, will fit into the grand scheme of things...
Great idea, in theory. There was just one problem: no one knew how to stop HIV that quickly. AZT wasn't powerful enough to do it. The pharmaceutical companies, however, had just started looking at a new class of substances, called protease inhibitors, that might fit the bill. As it turned out, it took several years of testing to come up with a formula for a protease inhibitor that was effective against...
...that no one is sure how to talk about it. When we say protease inhibitors work, what do we mean? Whom do they work for, how well and for how long? The only thing we know with certainty is that the conventions of language and sentiment that fit an earlier moment of AIDS, meaning all the years when death was at the end of every struggle, are unsuited to this one, when nothing is a foregone conclusion. Something powerful is happening. The new prospects for effective treatment insist that despair is an outmoded psychological reflex. Yet among people who live...
...team of science journalists already highly informed, having produced a string of AIDS cover stories. Staff writer Christine Gorman, who wrote what she calls the "medical detective story," covered the first international AIDS conference for TIME in 1985. "Back then all the scientists and all the journalists could fit into one room," she recalls. She met Ho six years ago, and was immediately struck by his quiet confidence. "I thought that here was someone to pay attention to." Reporter Alice Park, who conducted the bulk of the interviews with Ho (by phone, E-mail and at his lab), was equally...
...debate, I stormed out in a fit of anger. I am truly and deeply sorry to both Professors Kennedy and Binswanger, and I hope they, the audience and the moderator Mr. Smith will accept my humblest apologies. --Thomas J. Kelleher...