Word: manns
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...raised thorny economic, political and ethical questions that some researchers fear could interfere with the introduction of a lifesaving vaccine. "If one of these trials goes badly, we would lose not only time, but we could lose the opportunity to test an AIDS vaccine altogether," said Dr. Jonathan Mann, professor of epidemiology and international health at Harvard. "It's very important that they be done right...
...that, like AIDS, is spread by sexual contact and the sharing of hypodermic needles. But the product has yet to reach many people in poor U.S. neighborhoods and Third World countries largely because it costs more than $120 a shot. It would be a gross injustice, says Harvard's Mann, if Africans helped develop an AIDS vaccine by taking part in trials only to see it priced out of the reach of their countrymen. To prevent such a situation, Mann recently proposed that Congress offer drug companies an extension on exclusive marketing rights for other lucrative drugs in exchange...
...immediate causes of the outbursts varied from place to place. In the Westwood district of Los Angeles two weeks ago, the trouble started when the Mann theater oversold tickets to the movie's premiere and turned away hundreds of frustrated patrons. About 800 youths went on a rampage, breaking windows and looting stores in the trendy neighborhood near the UCLA campus. It took 100 riot police 3 1/2 hours to quell the disturbance. When it was over, nine people had been arrested and 21 shops damaged...
William Hertz, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles-based, 110-theater Mann Theater chain, was in a meeting yesterday and couldn't be reached for comment, his secretary said...
...telephone message at the Mann Westwood said all shows of New Jack City have been canceled...