Word: patrascu
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...When you take such classes, it’s good to have professors who are actually doing research in that particular area,” Mihai Patrascu, an MIT student in CS 225, wrote in an e-mail...
...Harvard professor is one of the best in the area, and the class is for such a small community,” MIT does not need to offer a counterpart to a computer science course at Harvard, Patrascu wrote...
...that hardly existed in Rumania. But the dictator had raised the odds that it would become a problem by outlawing birth control and sex education -- two mainstays of AIDS-prevention efforts elsewhere in the world -- in an attempt to boost his country's population. In January 1989, Dr. Ionel Patrascu, of Bucharest's Stefan S. Nicolau Institute of Virology, decided to test a handful of patients for the virus as part of a research project. Amazingly, the first child screened, a twelve-year-old girl, was infected. Of 14 more children examined at the same pediatric clinic, six harbored...
After Ceausescu's fall, Patrascu resumed testing with the help of Medecins du Monde. As he uncovered more and more cases, the doctor was puzzled by the unusual concentration of infections in children from one to three years old. Ordinarily, babies are exposed to the AIDS virus only through their mothers, but the mothers of these children were found to be free of infection...
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