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...results are preliminary: only 30 patients took part in the experiment, which lasted a scant 10 months. All the subjects appeared healthy to begin with and had been host to the virus for less than seven years. Yet even if this vaccine never helps a single person with full-fledged AIDS, the Walter Reed team has sketched out a blueprint for a potential new weapon against the disease. "This is the first time anyone has proved that you can change the immune system in a chronically infected person," says Dr. Robert Redfield, research-group leader. "Now we have to find...
...earlier she watched as her three-year-old son succumbed to starvation and diarrhea. Now she watches as her little daughter, her face all shriveled and her body bony, grows smaller every day. The hospital is crammed with such children. But it has no food to save them, and scant medicine...
...poll in the Southern Baptist Convention, America's largest Protestant group, shows that despite a marketplace clogged with modernized competitors, 62% preferred the complex, but inspiring, phraseology of the 1611 King James Version. Nonetheless, the Family Bible is sure to be popular, at least among those with scant interest in church tradition...
...instance, no Harvard library carries TV Guide. Apparently, there's no room for the country's biggest-selling weekly magazine among the Harvard libraries' scant 103,000 periodical holdings...
...Scientology group at war with psychiatry, its primary competitor. The commission typically issues reports aimed at discrediting particular psychiatrists and the field in general. The CCHR is also behind an all-out war against Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac, the nation's top-selling antidepression drug. Despite scant evidence, the group's members - who call themselves "psychbusters" - claim that Prozac drives people to murder or suicide. Through mass mailings, appearances on talk shows and heavy lobbying, CCHR has hurt drug sales and helped spark dozens of lawsuits against Lilly...