Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chunk of dna that experts long assumed to be superfluous, since it gets lost in replication. Now they think that piece of dna may be critical in aging, and some speculate that the key to preserving it may lie in preventing the shrinkage of the telomeres that protect chromosome tips from deteriorating...
...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 enough and early enough in its infectious cycle to eliminate it from the body altogether. When...
...infected with a different subtype of HIV than those commonly studied in the U.S. and Europe. Nor can the scourge be conquered without a vaccine, even though scientists are still unable to answer a fundamental question: What must such a vaccine accomplish in the body in order to protect...
...aired on June 27, telegraphed the President's strategy: Clinton wouldn't be out-toughed. In that ad a solemn President stared at the camera and said, "Deadly assault weapons off our streets; 100,000 more police on the streets; extend the death penalty. That's how we'll protect America." From there the President's team directed a family-values campaign that routinely tarred the G.O.P. as the party of the rich...
There was a still more fundamental reason why Clinton rejected class-based politics. As part of his attempt to unify the American people, he argued that it was important to protect such programs as Medicare and Medicaid and those that support education and the environment because they preserved and protected precious American values. Education meant opportunity; Medicare and Medicaid fulfilled our responsibility to one another; protecting the environment was protecting our community...