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...Michael Gottlieb who in 1981 reported the first cases of what was then called gay pneumonia. It was the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that alerted doctors to the gathering epidemic and established that the infection was transmitted through blood transfusions, tainted needles and unprotected sex. It was Dr. Luc Montagnier's laboratory at the Pasteur Institute in Paris that first isolated the killer virus in 1983. It was Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who made it grow in the lab, which allowed for the development of an antibody test...
Like many other ambitious young scientists, Ho wanted to be the first to isolate the virus that causes AIDS. Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo beat him to it. (Ho came in fourth, after Jay Levy of the University of California, San Francisco.) Still, while working in Hirsch's lab, Ho became expert at detecting HIV in places where few were able to find it. He was the first to show that it grows in long-lived immune cells called macrophages and among the first to isolate it in the nervous system and semen. Just as important, he showed that there...
...LUC MONTAGNIER...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard is building up a head of righteous steam about the Borg, the evil race that once enslaved Picard and has now infested the Starship Enterprise with plans to do something very naughty to Planet Earth. Well, the Captain will not abandon ship. He will face up to the Borg, he says. "And I will make them pay for what they've done." As Patrick Stewart delivers this line with a majestic ferocity worthy of a Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus, the audience gapes in awe at a special effect more imposing than any ILM digital doodle. Here...
...medieval and early modern ages and cinema. Here I have taught Rabelais with a few good Pantagruelists, am on the verge of teaching film with a larger student body, and things cartographic and Baroque with a scattered few. If the students of film become what Susan Sontag and Jean-Luc Godard call passionate cinephiles, they will be no less stalwart, no less engaged, and no less given over to the endless pleasure and thrill of what, at Boylston Hall, is now extending outward, in new directions and about all continents, through the practice and invention of Romance Studies...