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...biggest effects I've seen in biology," says Haseltine. "It helps explain why AIDS is such a devastating disease and why it can spread so fast." In the process of rampant replication, the AIDS virus destroys its home, the T cell. Thus it is a peculiar feature of this disease that as it progresses, the helper T cells disappear and so does the virus. By then, however, the patient is invariably beyond recovery...
...that she had had as a graduate student at the University of Kentucky 16 years earlier. Says Clance, who was near the top of her class: "I was always afraid that I would blow it with the next exam." At first, Clance thought that she had uncovered a problem peculiar to women. But shortly after she began to write about it in technical journals, she began to hear from successful men burdened with the same misgivings...
...neurosis that affects only those who have achieved success, is a peculiar blend of insecurities. Its victims privately denigrate their professional abilities and think that their success is the result of superficial qualities like good looks or charm. Some are workaholics who believe that they have made it only because they work harder than others. Most have difficulty accepting compliments. What distinguishes IP victims from other shy or insecure people is an enormous drive to achieve worldly position coupled with an inability to enjoy acclaim. Most strivers experience anxiety when faced with a difficult challenge, but usually feel better after...
...This is something I don't want to forget." Roberts, a half-season Sox, plays for San Diego now, but had elected to be in Beantown rather than in Chicago on Monday, helping the Padres in their 1-0 win. And it was interesting: On this peculiar April 1lth, Roberts-and Curtis Leskanic and Derek Lowe and other bygone friends who wore Sox jerseys and blue jeans during the ceremony, were much more a part of the team than, say, John Halama or David Wells, dressed head to toe like ballplayers. Roberts, ever smiling-just like last fall-received...
None of today’s most elite societies have managed to maintain the secrecy that veiled the Med. Fac. from its first days, though many seem to have inherited traces of the group’s peculiar taste in campus pranks...