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Last week a ray of hope pierced the gloom surrounding and one of the world's biggest health problems. Two groups scientists, one at New York University Medical Center, the other at the National Institutes of Health and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, announced they had taken a major step toward creating the first malaria vaccine. The teams reported in the journal Science that they had synthesized a constituent of the malaria parasite that could trigger immunity to the disease. "This is the protein that is important in developing protective antibodies against the initial stage...
...braving 100° temperatures, gathers in a riverside park. The featured speaker leans into the microphone for emphasis: "The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America." The crowd cheers. "Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy...
...political vacuum, but the air is being sucked out." Yet he also warned that "their decline is not yet marked by the rise of anyone else's fortunes." Under those conditions, the Sandinistas will probably remain in power for the foreseeable future, but the pall of gloom over Nicaragua is likely to grow deeper...
...clever characters in the book do not seem to balance with Giles' weighty gloom. It is hard to see the world, so to speak, through a blind man's eyes, and hard to make funny stories with happy endings out of morose ideas. Wise Virgin's cleverness just cannot buoy up its hero's dead weight...
...budget message early last year, Feldstein and Stockman helped persuade the President, over objections from the supply-siders, to propose a contingency tax designed to boost revenues in 1985 if the deficits were still too high. Feldstein's austere outlook and recommendations earned him the nickname "Dr. Gloom...