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...derailment, near Camden, S.C., injured at least 78 passengers. It was the worst Amtrak accident since 1987, when 16 were killed in a wreck in Chase, Md., and is the nation's eighth train wreck in two months. The cause of the disaster is still unknown, but officials from the National Transportation Safety Board suspect a faulty switch on the track. Declared New York passenger Ann Jo Rob: "This was my first time on a train. And this is my last time...
...Service finally replaced its main number- crunching supercomputer -- a clunky Control Data machine -- with a slick new Cray Y-MP last year, and has been upgrading the software for its radar and satellite stations. To speed the dissemination of data and forecasts between its central office in Camp Springs, Md., and weather stations around the country, it is building AWIPS, the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System. However, AWIPS is already a year late. Meanwhile, a report by the National Research Council in May cast doubt on the ability of the NWS's small staff to manage its other complex...
...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...
...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...