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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claims? Or did he culture a virus found by French researchers and then mislead the scientific community? A National Institutes of Health panel ruled last year that there were no ethical problems. Now a Health and Human Services report disagrees. It says Gallo didn't steal the virus. But a single sentence in his 1984 paper implying that no one could yet grow the French virus was ruled to be deliberately false and thus scientific misconduct. Gallo calls the report "incompetent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Long, Nobel | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...famine zone, last Wednesday, as helicopter gunships buzzed overhead. The show of force was meant to tell armed looters: You can't match our firepower, so get lost. So far, Somalia's gangs have shied away from any shoot-outs with the foreign troops. But armed bandits did steal some food that had been delivered under Marine guard to villages near Baidoa, after the Marines left. Gunmen have reappeared on the streets of Mogadishu too, indicating that the U.S.-led forces may have to get more aggressive about disarming the gangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into Somalia's Zone of Death | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

...students won't feed the squirrels, the rodents will usually come and try to the steal their next meal...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Are Squirrels a First-Year's Friend? Or Are They Only Glorified Rats? | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

...need to work on our transition defense," Delaney Smith said. "We can't try as much to steal the ball...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoopsters Must Shut Down Gurile | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

Russians may beg, borrow or steal foreign artifacts and ideas, but the vast majority of them would never want to live abroad. Those who do emigrate often suffer from chronic homesickness. Though keenly embarrassed by their economic and social backwardness, they believe passionately in the inherent superiority of their own soulfulness when compared with the arid materialism of the West. Ivan Goncharov's classic 19th century novel, Oblomov, presents the ethnic German Stolz as a model of energy and industry, but it is the dreamy Russian Oblomov who handily wins the competition of cultures. It may take Oblomov most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture: A Mind of Their Own | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

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