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Missouri, the birth state of Mark Twain and once the gateway to the West, the starting point of the Pony Express and the Santa Fe Trail, is a microcosm of America. Politically, it has voted for every presidential winner in the 20th century except Dwight Eisenhower. Geographically, it is the center of the country, containing elements of Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western regions. Economically, it has rich farmland, thriving suburbs, big cities and impoverished ghettos. As farm communities die in the north, retirement and tourist centers like Branson flourish in the south. And it's a home to the great...
...teachers lost their minds? The spate of news stories would have you think so. Maybe Bob Dole was on to something when he blamed the people who mind our ABCs for everything that's wrong in the schools. Certainly, it does look absurd to treat Advil as the gateway to addiction and a seven-year-old's clumsy mauling as sexual harassment...
...shield against HIV. Working independently, research teams from the U.S. and Belgium zeroed in on a single protein, called a chemokine, that lodges on the surface of all T cells. The researchers already knew that HIV uses this particular chemokine, variously dubbed CKR-5 or CCR-5, as a gateway into the cell. They knew that CKR-5 does not grant the virus access all by itself. Before it can gain entry, HIV has to dock with another gateway protein called CD-4 at the same time that it attaches to CKR-5. So the scientists decided to look...
They found that the men have a double dose of defective copies of the CKR-5 gene. Because their T cells do not carry the CKR-5 gateway, HIV cannot gain entry, giving the men a natural immunity. No one knows if that protection is absolute, but the results, if confirmed, have broad implications for both gene and drug therapy. "What these patients apparently show is that those genes are not necessary for a person's health," says Wong-Staal. "If it's dispensable for the person but not for the virus, then it's a terrific finding. You could...
...hybrid idea is attractive to computer makers, although most would prefer to add TV reception to their PC lines than get into the TV business. Direct-mail giant Gateway 2000 is already selling Destination, a $3,500-to-$4,500 hybrid TV-PC. NetTV, Inc. introduced its competing WorldVision in March, and Compaq and RCA are expected to follow suit early next year...