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Undeterred by the skeptics, the medical pioneer forged ahead and joined forces with a private company to develop his treatment. Now Salk, 80, may get a chance to prove he has one more medical miracle up the sleeve of his lab coat. Last week an expert advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the agency allow Salk to test his AIDS vaccine on 5,000 volunteers. If the FDA agrees, Salk's preparation would be the first AIDS vaccine to undergo a large-scale trial...
...understatement to say that it is a rare to find Asian-Americans who excel on the football field. Most sports fans would be hard-pressed to name even one Asian in the NFL. Yet Cheng said he never noticed he was a bit of a pioneer, breaking Asian stereotypes on the football field, until his senior year when his government teacher discussed stereotypes and discrimination with him and a Korean friend...
Patient 001, a 30-year-old blue-collar worker, was not an obvious candidate to become an abortion pioneer. "I was brought up in a Christian home," she told TIME. "My family was pro-life, so I always said 'I could never do that.' " But by the time Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa announced on Oct. 27 that it was looking for volunteers, she found herself pregnant and desperate. Married, with two children and "a complicated domestic situation" she prefers not to discuss, Patient 001 and her husband decided that she should take part in the trials. "I was terrified...
Others attribute Star Trek's popularity less to its science than to its dramatic and mythic qualities. Richard Slotkin, professor of English at Wesleyan University, says the show echoes the pioneer stories that dominate American history and literature. "What's so appealing about Star Trek is that it takes the old frontier myth and crosses it with a platoon movie," Slotkin says. "Instead of the whites against the Indians, you have a multiethnic crew against the Romulans and Klingons...
Before long, though, they may have a better way to make a baby. This week, Alan Trounson, an IVF pioneer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, will tell the American Fertility Society meeting in San Antonio, Texas, that he and his colleagues have devised an alternate approach that is much cheaper, simpler and easier on the mother. It removes the need for fertility drugs and daily monitoring. "There is nothing terribly complicated about ((the procedure))," Trounson claims, "so it will spread like a brush fire because the patients want...