Word: parise
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The AIDS pendulum took another big swing last week, thanks to a claim by biologist Ara Hovanessian of France's Pasteur Institute that his research team had made a major advance in understanding how the AIDS virus infects a healthy cell. The news created an instant stir, since the prestigious...
When Hovanessian finally stepped up to the conference podium in the Paris suburb of Marnes-la-Coquette, he faced an animated throng of 200 fellow scientists and a large contingent of reporters. But by the time the Lebanese- born biologist had finished flashing 20 graphs and charts on the screen...
Not all the skeptics were Americans, however. "I don't see the beginning of a proof," fumed Jacques Liebowitch of the Raymond Poincare Hospital near Paris. "The press has already whipped this up into a major breakthrough, and now we find that there is nothing to it." Even Hovanessian's...
London: William Mader Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod...
"The reason I didn't make it was because the final competition in Paris conflicted with spring finals. I had to come back to Harvard and missed a chance a acquiring the necessary qualifying points," van Leeuwen says.