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...pace at which medicine is coming to grips with the crisis. "We're talking about a disease that was recognized from a practical point of view only in 1981," says Dr. Samuel Broder, who oversees the development of anti-AIDS drugs at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. Since that time, he notes, the cause of AIDS has been discovered, the virus cloned, a blood- screening program implemented and development of a vaccine begun. Possibly most remarkable, the FDA is soon expected to approve the first therapeutic drug: azidothymidine (AZT), manufactured by Burroughs Wellcome...
Harvard had to go a long way to prove that it is the nation's finest squash team. But after a 6-3 win over the Tigers in Princeton, N.J. and a 7-2 triumph over the Midshipmen in Annapolis, Md., it proved just that...
...market, pilots searching for higher pay often jump from the smaller to the larger airlines and from one type of aircraft to another. Crews have less time to learn to work together. Caught at the bottom of this turnover spiral are the commuter airlines. Henson Airlines, based in Salisbury, Md., for example, lost 54 of its 195 pilots...
...Mike Barnes, D-Md., the target of the most hard-hitting of Channell's commercials last spring, said Sunday he would formally request on Monday a congressional probe of allegations that money diverted from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran was funnelled into such conservative groups...
Phillips--who jammed a pinky catching passes in football a few weeks back--was definitely the Crimson's brightest hope a year ago and was arguably the squad's top player overall. It will take the Germantown, Md., native a while to get his timing back and to get accustomed to his basketball teammates...