Word: needed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Real Harvard professors are too busy to teach summer school. Senior faculty spend the summer jetting around the world and having lunch with top government officials. Junior professors spend the summer months frantically attempting to churn out the reams of published material you need to get a lifetime post here...
...less than 30% of gay men diagnosed with AIDS in New York City lived more than 18 months. By 1987, after the introduction of AZT, survival at 18 months jumped to 62.9%. Says Michael Callen, a singer and songwriter who has had the disease for seven years: "We need to change our conception of AIDS. Not everyone dies of AIDS." Today about 70% of all AIDS deaths result from Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. But studies reported in Montreal confirm that pentamidine inhaled directly into the lungs is dramatically effective in preventing the pneumonia from developing. Federal health officials are so impressed...
...researchers the most urgent need may be to regain control of studies being conducted to test the efficacy of various AIDS drugs. Now that doctors have medications that work, they need to find what works best. But for the past several years, experimental drugs have first been available on the AIDS black market, through which patients who felt they had little to lose began their own treatment programs. The FDA, responding to intense public pressure to demonstrate both compassion and efficiency, has established a "fast track" for the approval of AIDS drugs. However, that streamlining may have permanently distorted...
...Club, as well as chef-partner at her own New York City restaurant, Arcadia. Overprotectiveness, not abuse, was what almost undermined Leslie Revsin, a chef at the Barbizon Hotel in Manhattan. She recalls that men rushed to help her with any heavy task, even when she didn't need help. Revsin managed, however, and in 1972 became the first female "kitchen man" and then chef at the Waldorf-Astoria, an event that prompted headlines in local newspapers...
...than to ask for help. And asking for help doesn't mean you're not a good cook," she points out. On the other hand, advises Lynn Sheehan, a student at San Francisco's California Culinary Academy, where nearly half the 400 students are women, "if you feel you need more upper-body strength, go work out." Elizabeth Terry, the chef-owner of Elizabeth on 37th in Savannah, advises the women in her kitchen: "If you can't handle the garbage can when it's full, empty it when it's half full...