Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made important contributions to AIDS research--coaxing HIV to grow in the lab, proving convincingly that it causes AIDS, developing an HIV-antibody test, identifying proteins that seem to protect some people from AIDS--although it took a decade for the controversy surrounding his role as co-discoverer of the virus to dissipate. After he was officially cleared of charges of scientific misconduct in 1993, Gallo left the NCI to set up his own virology institute at the University of Maryland...
...such. Barbara Ehrenreich's piece [ESSAY, Dec. 2], suggesting that the U.S. shift to an "all-female military," was full of holes! The individual occurrences of sexual harassment, as awful as they are, do not represent a prevailing trend. I ask you, an all-woman military? Who would protect whom? The women joining an all-female army would probably hate men enough to obliterate them. I do understand that Ehrenreich intended to be amusing, but such fun at the expense of the majority of perfectly good soldiers of all stripes is definitely not appropriate. URSULA BRAUN Munich, Germany...
...will probably continue to blame rock music and comic books, just out of habit. After all, a report a few years ago showing that young people were pretty much oblivious to the words of the songs they listened to had no effect on the fervor of the movement to protect impressionable teenagers from rock lyrics. The traditional homework dialogues between a teenager in his room and a parent at the bottom of the stairs will probably just continue without benefit of musical accompaniment...
...more immediate urgency, the government has been paying out much more in benefits, and collecting less in taxes, than was necessary to protect citizens against inflation. Switching to a more accurate measure would take the U.S. a long way toward balancing the budget by 2002. The time would seem propitious for such a move, with a safely re-elected President facing a Congress dominated by Republican budget hawks, and both seeking ways to slow the growth of spending on entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security before a real crisis breaks...
...able to understand our love for each other. But nowhere in the Constitution of the United States does the word comfortable appear as a criterion for the full enjoyment of the rights accorded to every American citizen. In fact, this nation's founders went to great pains to protect an unpopular minority from the tyranny of a majority...