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...students accused of sexual assault, sophomore David W. Krumsiek and junior Patrick J. Flanagan, both members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, will appear before the grand jury little more than a month after their alleged sexual abuse of two Brown University women at a Valentine's Day semiformal...
...second Brown woman has alleged that at the same party, Flanagan, another Phi Gamma Delta member, forced her into sexual acts that she repeatedly attempted to discourage...
...approach in order to treat AIDS effectively. In addition to eliminating the virus, they must rebuild the patient's ravaged immune system. That may turn out to be the most difficult goal to achieve; researchers have had little success so far with such natural immune boosters as alpha and gamma interferon. Indeed, AIDS therapy may ultimately prove to be most effective in patients whose immune systems are not yet destroyed -- those who show only early symptoms of the disease or perhaps are symptomless carriers. With drugs like AZT, says Broder, "it might be possible to prevent the onset of AIDS...
Cover: Photograph by Roland Neveu -- Gamma/ Liaison...
Supporters claim that gamma-ray exposure offers an alternative to controversial pesticides, fumigants and preservatives, and protects human health by killing parasites like trichina worms in pork and bacteria like salmonella, which causes food poisoning. Irradiation, they note, can extend shelf life. "We see the day when you can go into a supermarket and buy a barbecued chicken that has been cooked, vacuum-packed and irradiated. It can sit on the shelf for eight years, and all you'll have to do is heat it up," predicts Physicist Martin Welt, founder of Radiation Technology...