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...this hunch proves right, it will mark a milestone in the battle to contain the late-20th century's most terrible epidemic. For in addition to explaining why this small group of people infected with HIV has not become sick, the discovery of a viral strain that works like a vaccine would have far-reaching implications. "What these results suggest," says Dr. Barney Graham of Vanderbilt University, "is that HIV is vulnerable and that it is possible to stimulate effective immunity against...
...that causes an AIDS-like illness in monkeys, indicates that this might be less farfetched than it sounds. Ronald Desrosiers at the New England Regional Primate Research Center has demonstrated that when the nef gene is removed from SIV, the virus no longer has the power to make monkeys sick. Moreover, monkeys inoculated with the nef-free SIV developed marked resistance to the more virulent strain...
...mordantly juvenile ditty circulating in Nelson Rockefeller's campaign headquarters in 1968 insulted every hopeful in sight: "Scranton's a sissy,/ Nixon's a prick./ Romney's a moron,/ Goldwater's sick./ Nelson's your best man,/ Able and quick./ But who is our candidate?/ Upright Dick!" After Nixon's Inauguration, even the Washington Post's cartoonist Herblock gave him a shave (erasing the famously sinister Milhousian stubble shadow). Whatever else Nixon may have become in the years before his forced retirement, he was deemed for an instant to be presidential. Every President, including Bill Clinton, has a hard fight...
...time his scheduled visit to Harvard rolled around. Sprinkle says he was "sick of traveling...
Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Stanley H. Hoffmann and former chair of the Center for European Studies (CES) will be on sick leave for the next three weeks and will be unable to lecture or teach section during that time...