Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Great idea, in theory. There was just one problem: no one knew how to stop HIV that quickly. AZT wasn't powerful enough to do it. The pharmaceutical companies, however, had just started looking at a new class of substances, called protease inhibitors, that might fit the bill. As it turned out, it took several years of testing to come up with a formula for a protease inhibitor that was effective against...
Paris in the early 1980s turned out to be the perfect place to study AIDS. The patients were men, women, European, African. So few were homosexual that French doctors were not that distracted by the idea that this was a "gay plague." To them, it was merely a sexually transmitted disease. So they turned to Dr. Montagnier, a noted virologist at the Pasteur Institute, to find the cause. By 1983 his team had isolated a new human retrovirus. Their results, published in Science, were largely ignored. Then, in 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo announced that he had discovered the virus. Only...
...Asia, similar programs have stalled, due to a combination of poverty, official indifference and, at times, paranoia. As a result, public understanding of even the most basic information about AIDS is still piecemeal. Most of those dying from the disease in rural parts of Africa have no clear idea of what is killing them, let alone how to prevent...
...eternal young man, immensely gifted and born to high expectations, who had an overwhelming moral problem and either did not know what to do or did and could not do it. His inaction would never have been as poignant had he not been encumbered with the wild idea that a person should do whatever is nobler in the mind...
...secret admirers, and the guest, misled to assume that his admirer was a woman, discovered in front of the live audience that it was not. Humiliated and apparently deranged, he later shot the admirer. On the witness stand the opaque Ms. Jones told the jury that she had no idea how her show was produced but was certain they had done nothing wrong...