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DIED. VICTOR MILLS, 100, ingenious engineer who changed babies--and parenting--forever with the invention of the first mass-marketed disposable diaper; in Tucson, Ariz. Mills used his granddaughter as a guinea pig for the innovation that ushered in the throwaway culture. Hired by Procter & Gamble in 1926, he also worked on such household staples as Ivory soap and Pringles...
...intrusion could lead to problems ranging from cancer to systemic nerve damage. The problems might show up immediately, or they might show up 15 or 20 years later. There is no way of finding out unless a few brave souls are willing to step forward to be the first guinea pigs...
...ignorance. Be aware of HIV, or it may cost you your life.? But for 50 volunteers at the Chicago-based International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, the fight against ignorance now means deliberately contracting HIV ? or at least, injecting a weakened strain of the virus. The activists-turned-guinea-pigs petitioned the National Institutes of Health Monday to allow them to be the first humans to receive live HIV vaccinations. TIME health reporter Christine Gorman says there is proof "that this vaccine could trigger a stronger immune response than other kinds of inoculations." On the other hand, Gorman warns...
...Harvard Law School Alumnae Association and the Guinea Association, a foundation dedicated to advancing the professional careers of women, are cosponsoring a program to help usher female law students into successful careers as attorneys...
...California-based Guinea Foundation is dedicated to supporting the ideals promoted by the novelist Virginia Wolfe in her essay "Three Guineas." Wolfe writes that society would be bettered by devoting money to women's college building funds and professional training for women in non-traditional careers such...