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Scientists hope AZT will interrupt this process by preventing the HTLV-III virus from latching onto the genetic material and multiplying, while they hope alpha interferon will keep the viruses from leaving the white blood cell and attacking others. Hirsch is hopeful about the two drugs, both of which have already been shown effective in the laboratory. But there are some indicators that AZT may hold more promise, he and others...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: Fighting the AIDS Virus at Harvard | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

...elite lecture from stages, their voices magnified electronically, to crowds of up to 1000. The rest of us are not permitted to interrupt, comment, or disturb their performances...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Reflections on the SCR | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Barring any violence which might interrupt theprogram, Steiner said he had received positivefeedback from enough institutions he consideredbeneficial to Blacks that Harvard could send itsfirst interns this summer...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Steiner Says S. Africans Suppport Internships | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

...course, only to the reader) to tell the tale. Why does Davies do this? Well, it's kind of clever and amusing at first. And the use of these two characters could be forgiven if they weren't used in such an amateurish way. Throughout the novel they interrupt every once in a while to explain the most recent occurrence in the life of Francis Cornish. "If you wish to talk of Chance', said the Daimon Maimas. 'But you and I know how deceptive the concept of Chance--the wholly random, inexplicable happening--is as a final explanation of anything...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: A Poorly Cast Spell | 1/13/1986 | See Source »

...want to interrupt when you're busy. But I've been thinking I don't have to put up with all the garbage my father says. I know they're not true, but they really hurt. They hurt because no matter how I try to say that he's not my father, I can't say that to myself. He's my father, and he's the worst enemy I ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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