Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other institutions tested AZT in late 1984 and early 1985 on AIDS- infected human cells in the test tube and found that it seemed to interfere with viral reproduction. Subsequently, they began testing the drug on 19 AIDS and ARC victims, and early this year reported in the British journal Lancet that the subjects had shown remarkable improvement. There was, however, at least one troublesome side effect: a reduction in their blood-cell counts. It was as a result of this early work that Burroughs Wellcome requested and was given FDA approval for the larger study that began in February...
Whenever a sensational crime makes the headlines these days, literary agents seem to arrive on the scene almost as fast as the lawyers, and movie producers are not far behind. Such was the case with R. Foster Winans, the former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of the paper's influential "Heard on the Street" column. Winans was convicted last year of fraud and conspiracy for leaking the contents of his articles before their publication to two New York stockbrokers, who traded on the information and earned nearly $700,000 in illegal profits. The reporter, who received...
...traveling with Paul, an Italian sailor who was taking photos for a travel journal, and through his camera eye I saw people making do with what they had. Out of each ornately carved home there were electrical wires. Above several, for instance, there stood television antennae and generators. The villagers took from the land and from technology what was necessary. And no more...
...press also came under attack as part of the state of siege. Six magazines were closed down indefinitely, including Hoy, the journal of the centrist Christian Democratic Party. The London-based Reuters wire service had to close its operations in Santiago after transmitting a profile of Pinochet that referred to the President as an "archvillain." The Italian news agency ANSA was also shut down for disseminating what the government called "tendentious and false information that has offended the armed forces...
...avoid raising any false hopes of a quick cancer cure for humans. "This has all been done with mice," he stressed. "There are things that work in mice that do not work in people." Still, some of the results published last week in the journal Science were compelling. For example, mice subjected to the new treatment proved to be immune to malignancies seeded by cells from the original tumor. And the NCI team has already isolated the same kind of powerful cancer-fighting cell in humans. "It's potentially very exciting," Rosenberg concedes. He believes the U.S. Food and Drug...