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...specifically to combat the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS. A synthetic copy of a natural protein, CD4 prevents the deadly virus from entering and infecting healthy cells. While it cannot destroy the invader, scientists hope that CD4 can neutralize its ability to attack the human immune system. Says Samuel Broder, a National Cancer Institute researcher who is a leader in AIDS drug development: "It is one of the most important steps we have ever been able to take...
...viewed against the background of the growing hostilities in the gulf over the past two years. He cited the May 1987 engagement in which an Iraqi missile hit the U.S.S. Stark and killed 37 American seamen and the subsequent incidents in which the tanker Bridgeton and the U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts, a frigate, were damaged by Iranian mines. Those attacks made U.S. commanders in the area determined not to be caught with their guard down. Said Crowe: "A decision was made early in the commitment to give our commanders sufficient latitude to protect their people . . . They do not have...
...kneeling and digging and weeding seems to have an equally salutary effect on the human spirit. "He who would have beautiful roses in his garden," wrote the great rosarian Samuel Reynolds Hole in 1869, "must have beautiful roses in his heart." To wait as long as three years for trilliums to bloom requires considerable fortitude; to rise early and weed builds discipline; to construct a garden in one's mind in the dead of winter fosters purity of thought. "Sometimes what you do is for others," muses Designer Oscar de la Renta, who has transformed a Connecticut horse farm into...
...Iranian troops were routed; 3,000 were killed, wounded or captured. A day after the Fao disaster, Iranian naval forces clashed in the gulf with U.S. ships that had just demolished Iran's offshore oil platform near Sirri Island in retaliation for mine damage done to the frigate U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts. The engagement cost Iran six ships, including two of its four frigates...
...much-anticipated move, Wood presented a proposal calling for total divestment at the Board's December meeting. After the meeting, Board President Samuel C. Butler '51 said that the Overseers would likely consider the proposal for total divestment at the February meeting...