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...extent of HIV's nastiness we can get a lot closer to defeating it. The little hook that HIV uses to bind itself to cell receptor CCR5, for example, could be the virus' Achilles' heel. Blocking that hook may be the key to preventing HIV's ability to infect. "There's no question we're better off now than we were before," said Sodroski. "Before we were blind, now we are sighted." And that's a miracle in itself...
Dahmer didn't let hatred infect his generous spirit. When two college kids ran out of money and gas on the highway near his store, Ellie says, he gave them fuel from his pump and lent them $20. The boys, like many people he helped, were white...
...made many crude, irreversible mistakes. But maybe not. In a country accustomed to the ruler's answering for everything, even burned stew and spilled milk are held against the Czar and are never forgiven. Similarly, shamanism has always been a trait of the Russian national character: we cough and infect everyone around us, but when we all get sick, we throw stones at the shaman because his spells didn't work...
...years scientists doing gene therapy have had to rely on viruses to do their heavy lifting. Doctors would put whatever snatches of DNA they wanted to change into the viruses and then infect their patients with millions of them, hoping that some would hit the target. Unfortunately, the DNA patches would rarely land where they were supposed to, and even when they did, they usually fell out within weeks. A permanent genetic fix always seemed maddeningly out of reach...
Like normal viruses, computer viruses need a host to survive and grow. This ideal host is the promiscuous floppy disk. Exchanging data with any desktop it comes across, the floppies can infect an entire computer lab, campus or the world...