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When he retired from Harvard in 1986, the energetic Kelleher did not slow down...
...diseases quickly become political as well as medical crises. During the Middle Ages, the appearance of the plague in a European city was more likely to result in a pogrom against Jews, or burnings of suspected witches, than any rational public-health response. More recently, when HIV began its slow burn through the U.S., it was several years before then President Ronald Reagan even mentioned the disease publicly. The appearance of a probable new SARS case in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou late last month reminds us that the story of this disease's emergence, and now possible...
Private companies may also be encouraged about their chances of developing a successful drug because protease inhibitors have thus far proven the best method to slow the progress of HIV infection, Cantley said...
...such alarming news hardly made a splash in the United States. Sure, The New York Times ran its requisite coverage from the foreign desk and an editorial from out of nowhere praising the slow but steady progress of Russian democracy, but the talking heads simply brushed it aside, and the story became little more than a small blurb on Headline News. Instead of hearing about tainted elections, we heard about the Paris Hilton video. And while both are important in their own way, I’m pretty sure most of us would agree that Putin is a little...
...thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe." DONALD RUMSFELD, Defense Secretary, in response to a question about European efforts to slow the U.S. march against Iraq...