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...protein coat, the Army researchers hope to kick-start the patients' immune systems into mounting an effective counterattack. Redfield thinks that his version of the viral coat may share enough characteristics with all the known mutant strains of HIV to overcome the variability problem. Said Redfield, a rare, unabashed optimist at the Amsterdam meeting: "I believe HIV is very simple, very straightforward, and it's going to be solved...
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Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail over disunity, integration over disintegration. In fact, I'll bet that within the next hundred years (I'm giving the world time for setbacks and myself time to be out of the betting game, just in case I lose this one), nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- "citizen of the world" -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st...
...good thing Valery Gergiev is a sturdy optimist. Gergiev is artistic director and principal conductor of St. Petersburg's Kirov Opera. His is the finest company in Russia, and it is now on its first ever U.S. visit, playing New York City's Metropolitan Opera House...
...began, appropriately, in the afterglow of an Optimist club meeting in Lafayette, N.Y., on a Thursday night in the winter of 1972. Over a couple of beers, Doug Keller was telling fellow Optimist Clay Smith about an experiment one of his Syracuse University graduate students was doing. As part of Keller's graduate class in materials science, the student was trying out various chemicals to see if there was some agent that would allow drills to penetrate coal more easily. When he applied ammonia, explained Keller, the raw coal broke down into fine particles, separating the purer hydrocarbons from rock...