Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier this spring, Essex and some researchers in Senegal, Africa, discovered that a large portion of the human population had been infected with a close relative of the AIDS virus. HTLV-IV, as the researchers dubbed the new virus, infects some human white blood cells, just like the AIDS virus, but with one crucial difference--the AIDS virus kills the white blood cells and HTLV-IV does not. Essex says he hopes to "use molecules from HTLV-IV to create a protective response" from the human immune system...
However, injecting people with a virus similar to AIDS is not the only kind of vaccine possible. In another approach, doctors insert part of the HTLV-III virus, like the virus' envelope or shell, onto the harmless portion of another virus. When that new half-breed virus grows, will have the HTLV-III shell without the virus' deadly properties. Then the human immune system may be able to develop protective antibodies to the AIDS virus by coming into contact with a harmless, "dummy" AIDS virus created...
...true that until today there existed the theoretical possibility of a catastrophe--a large portion of the (nuclear) fuel and reactor graphite was burning," the official news agency Tass quoted Yevgeny Velikhov as saying...
...Isla were married. By then Obert Miller's show had grown to four dogs, four ponies and a monkey, a big enough production to accommodate the newlyweds. For their efforts, D.R. and Isla earned a quarter a week to split. D.R. always bought a cigar with his portion, and Isla bought a candy bar with hers--"a big old PowerHouse; remember those?" By 1937 D.R. and Isla had a piece of the action, as they have had in one circus or another ever since; thus 50 years of ownership. Since 1969 the organization has traveled under the name Carson & Barnes...
...prank came during the final days of testing for the computer portion of the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR), a mandatory test for all freshmen. The pranksters said that they were trying to relieve the frustration of the more than 600 freshmen who had still not passed their QRR test...