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...advent of penicillin drugs in the early 1940s ushered in a triumphant era of medicine. With stunning speed, pharmaceutical chemists armed doctors with one antibiotic after another, giving them an arsenal of magic bullets to knock out the germs that cause everything from pneumonia to gonorrhea. It was only a matter of time, it seemed, before all infectious diseases would be conquered...
...Federal Reserve, began buying hundreds of millions of dollars as the rate slipped below the 1.45 level that has triggered past rescue attempts. This time it hardly helped. By the close of trading in New York Friday, the dollar had recovered only to 1.4290. That, in turn, helped knock more than 50 points off the Dow Jones industrial average at Friday's close...
...manufacturers have already been hampered by HIV's talent as a quick-change artist. Only last year a group of promising anti-AIDS drugs had to be shelved because HIV adapted too easily to the medication. And drugs that prove effective against all forms of HIV will not necessarily knock out an entirely novel virus...
...common along Moscow's broad avenues, where drivers weave through multiple lanes at high speed, that they rarely merit public attention. But when a private car forced a speeding government Volga sedan into oncoming traffic last week, causing the Volga to sideswipe another car, somersault across four lanes and knock down a tree, some Russian officials called the crash an assassination attempt. Why? The Volga carried Sergei Shakhrai, former Russian Deputy Prime Minister and President Boris Yeltsin's top lawyer in a court case that will decide the fate of the Communist Party...
...that any new application for a blasting permit would probably be denied. Last week Perot said he assumed that Bermuda Engineering obtained whatever permits were needed. He flatly denied that he watched Mackie drill or dynamite the seabed. He added that all Mackie did was use a jackhammer to knock off a 3-ft. piece of dead coral protruding from a dock. Perot then telephoned Mackie and quizzed him angrily about what he had told TIME. Mackie now says his memory of the incident is no longer clear...