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DIED. CHARLES B. HUGGINS, 95, Canadian-born medical researcher who won the Nobel Prize in 1966 for hormone studies leading to the use of drug therapies for cancer, previously treated mostly by surgery and radiation; in Chicago...
...crimson cells and platelets. For others it is possibly greatest when going to class in subjects that have been shaped by the men who have become these ghosts. Think of government: Adams, Adams, Roosevelt, Roosevelt and Kennedy; philosophy: Emerson, Santayana, William James; the sciences: Agassiz, Bowdich and all those Nobel laureates; and literature: from John Harvard himself, who hailed from the same town as Shakespeare, to Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot...
...research centers on a group of molecules called chemokines, which may one day be used to shield cells from HIV. Other scientists, including Ho, are intensifying their search for a vaccine. Two weeks ago, the nih increased its budget for AIDS-vaccine research 18%--to $129 million--and named Nobel-prizewinning molecular biologist David Baltimore to head the effort...
...recent weeks, two of the war's heroes, generals Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf, have said they know of no evidence that U.S. troops were exposed to chemical weapons during the conflict that could have made them sick. But there are new indications that the generals, and even a Nobel prizewinning scientist hired by the Pentagon to look into the matter, were not told the full story. Since June 21 of this year, Defense officials have begun to suggest that the syndrome could be linked to troops' coming into contact with traces of sarin and other nerve agents. Here...
Heaney, 56, whose poetry addresses the religious strife between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the first Harvard professor ever awarded the literature prize, which carries an award of $1 million...