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...summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1966, received his doctorate in astrophysics from Harvard in 1971 and obtained a masters degree in materials science from Rice University in 1988. His doctoral work at Harvard focused on the design, construction, testing and flight of a balloon-borne, low-energy, gamma ray telescope...
...also ushered in some drug novelties. Since the turn of the decade, gamma hydroxy butyrate, known as GHB, has been used illegally in the body-building community to reduce fat. Recently, however, youths have begun to abuse the drug to achieve a trancelike state. In New York City kids concoct a "Max" cocktail by dissolving GHB in water, then mixing in amphetamines. A different mix resulted in several overdoses in the Atlanta area in the past few months. Manhattan's hard-core sex community has also turned on to "Special K," or Cat Valium, an anesthetic that numbs the body...
...path that led medical researchers to beta interferon was hardly straightforward. Initially, some scientists believed attacks characteristic of multiple sclerosis might be triggered by chronic viral infections. So in 1984 they began testing gamma interferon, one of the body's own antiviral weapons, in MS patients. To their horror, patients became dramatically worse. The false step proved instructive however. "It told us that gamma interferon was a major player in this disease," explains neurologist Dr. Kenneth Johnson of the University of Maryland at Baltimore...
Researchers later learned that the level of gamma interferon present in the cerebrospinal fluid of MS patients skyrocketed just before and during acute attacks. Attention therefore shifted to a cousin molecule, beta interferon, which appears to play the role of inhibiting gamma. At the University of Chicago, Dr. Avertano Noronha and his colleagues demonstrated that beta interferon markedly decreased the activity of white blood cells obtained from multiple sclerosis patients. Beta interferon, they found, not only restrained the proliferation of these cells, it also shut down their production of myelin-destroying compounds...
...team, which shot a 33--six under par--was composed of four members of the co-ed Delta Gamma social club. They plan to donate their winnings to the Sight Conservation/Aid to the Blind, according to B.U. senior Kate P. Edelbaum...