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...couldn't offer protease inhibitors because we didn't know the correct dose," he remembers thinking. So Kline designed a simple study of 20 kids, ages 4 to 12, and made an educated guess at a dose that might be strong enough to do some good without doing irreparable harm. "The companies have not generated these data," he says. "I'm doing it here, and someone else is doing it at St. Jude's, and someone else is doing it in California. It certainly isn't a very efficient way of getting the information...
...rate to 8%. In the next few months researchers will begin putting HIV-infected mothers on combination therapy with protease inhibitors to see if they can cut the rate to zero. But protease inhibitors are so much more powerful and potentially toxic than AZT that no one knows what harm it might do to the developing fetus...
Unfortunately, Greider's solutions could well do more harm than good. He hails West European efforts to protect existing jobs, but doesn't deal with the fact that those policies make employers reluctant to create new jobs, thus driving unemployment rates in those economies to postwar highs. Similarly, his schemes for slowing the flow of money from country to country would punish serious investors as well as speculators. His insistence that peasants in developing nations need protection from inhumane labor practices ignores the overriding desire of many of those people to escape from the grinding poverty of subsistence farming. Greider...
...chemicals also seem to have done harm to humans in the region...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: It was the stamp of vindication that private property owners had long awaited in their battle over a key environmental law. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that people who claim to have suffered economic harm may use the Endangered Species Act to file lawsuits accusing the federal government of doing too much to protect some species. The ruling is sure to affect the hundreds of ongoing environmental disputes nationwide. It came as a defeat for the Clinton administration, which until now had been successful in lower court decisions seeking a "one-way" interpretation...