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Students expressed a mix of awe and excitement at the prospect of observing the eclipse from the open air garden adjoining the Masters' home...
...better not try to get black votes because it might lose those white votes. That is shameful." That it is. But Kemp's stance could cost him dearly in the 2000 primaries, where the increasingly conservative G.O.P. primary electorate dominates the nominating process. On the other hand, the prospect of two moderates, Kemp and Colin Powell, battling the likes of Pat Buchanan could make the 1960s struggle for the party's soul seem tame by comparison...
Unfortunately, we must rely on one of the two major parties to give it to us, though neither is equal to the task. For all intents and purposes, the Democrats and the Republicans are both incumbent parties, and the prospect that either will cede some of their own power is dim. Nonetheless, it is the only way. In this election year, members of both parties, or at least those that care about a vital democracy, must call on their candidates to take this important step quickly...
...prospect of salvation for people with AIDS seems closer than ever before. Since last November, almost 15 years after the first reported AIDS cases, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved five new drugs that when taken in various combinations with the old standby, azt, have given new life to thousands of desperately ill people. This past summer, researchers isolated a gene that appears to protect some people from HIV infection--even after repeated exposure--and could lead to new genetic therapies against AIDS. Experiments being conducted this fall may tell doctors whether they can hit the virus hard...
...development--treatments based either on inactivated or weakened viruses. There is simply no way to guarantee that the viruses in a vaccine made of inactivated HIV will remain inactive. Similarly, any merely weakened strain of HIV might still overpower the human immune system. Because of the all too likely prospect that the resulting HIV vaccines would cause the very disease they were supposed to prevent, most scientists do not plan to pursue the old-style approach any further...