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...unusual case has worked its way to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and the justices heard oral arguments in the case earlier this month...
...oral vaccine, developed by Dr. Hilary Koprowski of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute, was made from weakened polio viruses grown in a culture of monkey kidney cells. Several monkey viruses have been known to contaminate such cultures, though vaccine makers now take pains to weed them out. Extrapolating from a number of coincidences -- the testing of the vaccine in the very site where AIDS is thought to have begun; Koprowski's recollection that he cultured the virus in the tissue of green monkeys, a species that harbors a virus similar to HIV -- writer Tom Curtis hypothesizes that the vaccine was contaminated...
There are problems with the theory. It is not clear that HIV can survive oral ingestion. Also, if the noxious seed was sown in the '50s, why didn't African doctors notice it sooner? Curtis offers possible explanations, but the clearest resolution would be to test the original vaccine stocks, still on ice at Wistar, for HIV-like viruses. Wistar officials last week said they would form a committee "to evaluate the Rolling Stone speculations." Meanwhile, there is no reason to worry about standard polio vaccines: they are rigorously screened for contamination...
Dolmen's Lament, Musical Archetypes in Irish Oral Keening Tradition--by Francis B. Corcoran, professor of Composition and Theory, Staatliche Hochscule fur Musik und dartsellende Kunst. Music Building, Room...
PROTESTS MAY NOT be the only answer. Law students are also trying to shock Harvard into action by using what they have learned in contracts class and applying it to Harvard's hiring practices. Oral arguments in the Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR) case were heard in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) last Tuesday...