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...million to 5 million people around the globe who already harbor the virus in their body. Most vaccines work to prevent an infection, not to eliminate it after it has taken hold. Now, however, a group of scientists from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Rockville, Md., believe they may have found a retroactive vaccine. In a study published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, the team announced that repeated immunizations with a genetically engineered AIDS vaccine appeared to stabilize and perhaps even boost the beleaguered immune system of some infected people...
...Jones, a native of Milton, Mass. and a Kirkland House resident, track has taken her from College Park, Md. to Europe, brought her victories and disappointments, visits to medical tents and swimming pools...
...another piece of stereo equipment. We've been LPed, 8-tracked, cassetted, CDed, and DATed, and now comes the Mini Disc, or MD, unveiled last week by Sony, which expects it to surface in stores by late...
Looking like a compact disc after a month on Slim-fast, the 2 1/2-in. MD is small enough to be played on a machine the size of a cigarette pack. But it holds as much music as its full-size cousin, and unlike the traditional CD (if something a decade old can be called traditional), the MD records as well as plays back. True, it does not offer the compact disc's perfection of fidelity, but the digital MD easily outperforms analog tape cassettes. And unlike portable CD units, the MD player doesn't skip when jolted...
...which begs the question: Who needs it? "We'd like to introduce the MD to the industry as a successor to cassettes," says Sony president Norio Ohga. That sounds a lot like what the company said only last fall as it introduced the digital audio-tape Walkman. But now Sony argues that there is room for both DAT, aimed at hi-fi fetishists, and MD, whose lower price, smaller size and ease of use should appeal to the masses. Provided, of course, the masses will pop for yet another audio device...