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...recent polls place them in a virtual tie, although a crucial 10% are undecided. The polls also show that 36% of the state's Democrats, who outnumber Republicans 3 to 1, say they may vote for Helms. "Helms caught Hunt off guard," contends University of North Carolina Political Scientist Merle Black. "Hunt needs to confront Helms on these misrepresentations, which are a modern version of the old whisper campaigns...
...high noon in Bethesda, Md., home of the National Institutes of Health. The scene: a small French restaurant with hanging baskets and beamed ceiling. On one side of a table sat Dr. Robert Gallo, 47, a brash NIH scientist who started life as the son of a small-town welder and has become one of the nation's leading cancer researchers. Sensitive about his diploma from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia ("I had to fight to prove I was good, because I didn't go to Harvard"), Gallo gained a reputation in 1980 by becoming the first scientist...
...epidemiologist with an advanced degree from Harvard. Curran heads the AIDS task force at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, where more than 100 researchers have been working to discover exactly what Gallo claimed to have found. To test Gallo's claim, Curran had provided the NIH scientist with 205 anonymous blood samples, some taken from AIDS patients, some from healthy individuals. To make the test more challenging, samples were included from people with hepatitis and other infections. Gallo's task was to identify which samples had come from the AIDS patients on the basis of whether...
...describe Gallo's isolation of a virus that appears to be the cause of AIDS. "He is going to nail it down cold," predicts AIDS Researcher Anthony Fauci of NIH. But as word of the discovery began to leak out last week-notably in an article in New Scientist magazine based apparently on advance copies of Gallo's papers-a scientific team in Paris rushed to call attention to their own work on an AIDS virus. A Nobel Prize was possibly at stake, and Epidemiologist William Blattner of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) observed: "People are racing...
...will host "The Government and the Classroom. The Issues at State in the 1983 Campaign," with Rep Paul Simon (D-III). Garruy Jones. Reagan's Undersecretary for Education: John Wilson of the Nat'l Educators Association's Executive Committee, and Terry Hartle and Educational Testing Service Research Scientist, That's this Thursday...