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Salk and Sabin came from the two competing schools of vaccine research. Sabin, like Louis Pasteur, believed the way to produce immunity was to create a mild infection with a "live" but crippled virus, and he concocted his competing vaccine accordingly. Salk, from his flu-fighting days, knew the immune system could be triggered without infection, using deactivated, or "killed," viruses. And, as it turned out, his quick-and-dirty killed viruses were better suited to a crash program than Sabin's carefully attenuated live ones. By 1954, Salk and Francis were ready to launch the largest medical experiment...
...experts. However, Fabius, Herv? and Dufoix are accused of delaying the implementation of mandatory blood screening, even though government scientists had already vetted a test devised by Abbot, an American company. Delaying the final approval of that test was seen as a way to give a French company, Diagnostics-Pasteur, a crucial head start for its own product in what was expected to become a lucrative market. The fact that Fabius's health adviser at the time was a former Pasteur administrator didn't help appearances...
...this to actually try to say that my winter vacation, spent studying minority integration between smoked turkey sandwiches at Bruegger's and No. 28s at Pho Pasteur, was better than yours? Not exactly. It's not even to say that a Harvard education emphasizes the wrong aspects. Quite the opposite, really. For it is not the purpose of college to enable a life of the mind. It is to teach students how to think and approach problems, and to discover what moves them, precisely so that when we finally do leave, we may find something interesting and inspiring...
Students looking for something a little more upscale might visit their local Pho Pasteur for some Vietnamese cuisine. But at the local Dunster Street branch, several items chosen at random are more expensive than at the Washington Street location in Boston, Pasteur...
...LOUIS PASTEUR Estimated bid: $8,000-$12,000 Final...