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...River blindness, also called onchocerciasis, is caused by infection from a worm carried by flies, and occurs particularly in West Africa, Guatemala and Mexico. The World Bank, in a project to eradicate the disease in seven African nations within 12 years, has pledged $150 mil lion to spray the flies' breeding waters...
...housed in the former royal hunting forest at the eastern end of the Paris Metro line. Even when Vincennes opened in 1970, the campus was Sixties Squalid. Today the school is an ill-repaired set of buildings and classrooms with barely a wall not defaced by leftist posters or spray-painted slogans: SHAH ASSASSIN! I HATE COPS. SOLIDARITY WITH NICARAGUA...
Last week something new had been added. Fresh spray-painted signs on the walls declared: KEEP VINCENNES IN VINCENNES and NO TO DISMANTLING OUR ZOO. The latest watchwords were responses to the sudden resignation of Vincennes' beleaguered president, Pierre Merlin, 42, and the renewed determination of the French government to cut down the university's size by moving it to the working-class Paris suburb of Saint-Denis...
...enough interferon to move studies out of the laboratory and into the clinic. In 1972 Virologist Thomas Merigan, of Stanford University, and a group of British researchers began studying IF's effect on the common cold. Soviet doctors were claiming success in warding off respiratory infections with weak sprays of IF made in a Moscow laboratory. Merigan and his colleagues gave 16 volunteers a nasal spray of interferon one day before and three days after they were exposed to common cold viruses. Another 16 volunteers were subjected to the same viruses without any protection. The results seemed miraculous. None...
Before leaving, they hung several long banners and spray-painted the office with slogans: FREE PUERTO RICO and STATEHOOD MEANS DEATH, as well as the initials F.A.L.N...