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Until vaccines become available, many doctors urge that a combination of condoms and spermicides be used to prevent sexual transmission of AIDS. Laboratory tests show that nonoxynol-9, the active ingredient in many U.S. spermicides, can prevent the virus from reproducing. A more potent product, under development by Exovir in Great Neck, N.Y., would contain both nonoxynol- 9 and alpha interferon, a combination that compounds the killing effect. Pharmatex, a spermicide sold in Europe and Africa, also appears to inhibit the virus in the test tube...
...announced he was buying a stake in Next, the computer venture of Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former chairman of Apple Computer. For $20 million, Perot, 56, joins the Next board and gets 16% of a company that is at least a year away from shipping its first product. Jobs, 31, will keep 63% for himself. "We feel we can call up Ross at 1 a.m. if we need to," said Jobs. "I'll help out anytime I can," replied the man whose help drove GM Chairman Roger Smith to distraction...
ITALY. The Italian economy barreled along with a 4% growth rate last year. But that performance was partly the result of stimulative government spending that left a huge budget deficit amounting to 15% of gross national product. Carli warned that runaway spending was a serious threat to long-term growth. "How long," he asked, "can a country survive with public debt taking an ever expanding share of GNP?" Growth will slow to about 2.2% this year, he predicted...
While Axlon is tight-lipped about its Tech Force robots, executives confirm that the toys are controlled by audio signals. Michael Hatcher, Axlon's senior product manager, imitates the sound by muttering a low-pitched beeping noise. The Tech Force robots will carry microprocessors that decode the signals from the sound track of the Tech Force cartoon program. Those beeps -- signifying such commands as forward, reverse, right and left -- will send the robots wheeling across the living-room floor. At the same time, children can control other robots by sending out audio commands from a small keyboard. That way youngsters...
...programs tightly curtailed by Gramm-Rudman spending limits, few Congressmen can politically afford to support more overseas aid. Thus while the U.S. remains the world's largest single source of foreign giving, its contribution is the smallest among major industrial nations when measured as a fraction of gross national product...