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...addition to the awards to the AIDS researchers, four other Lasker Awards will also be given this year, according to the statement...
Professor of Virology Myron E. Essex, who made milestone discoveries in the initial quest to identify the AIDS virus, will travel to New York City in November to accept the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award...
...Lasker Award will be given to Essex "for his unique contributions to understanding the acquired immune syndrome," said the New York-based Lasker committee. The award carries a $15,000 honorarium and is considered by some to be the American equivalent of the Nobel Prize...
...year-old Lasker Foundation cited Essex for critical work dating back to the early '70s, including the discovery of the first cancer-causing virus...
Judge Morris Lasker reached the end of his patience and on Oct. 31 ordered the city to find some way to remove at least 341 inmates from the jails immediately. The city then proceeded to release 610 inmates, many with long criminal records. A political furor resulted when one was rearrested within two days on a charge of rape. The October reopening of the renovated Manhattan House of Detention, better known as the Tombs, will not help much, because officials plan to limit its population to one prisoner for each of its relatively luxurious 421 cells. Judge Lasker closed...