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GENEVA: Scientists in the battle against AIDS have heard mostly good news this week at the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva -- but Wednesday the deadly virus again served notice that it is more than equal to the fight. A San Francisco man has a strain of AIDS that resists six of the 11 retrovirus-fighting drugs currently available, including -- and this is the scary part -- protease inhibitors, which are supposed to prevent the AIDS virus from being transmitted...
...singular argument or present one over-arching thesis. Rather, by chronicling the lives of the young working class, it attempts to locate patterns and questions. But the questions that The Unknown City poses extend to more awesome issues than the future of economics and jobs. Instead, it documents the strain of poverty and race relations as inner cities turn from melting pots into pressure cookers, ready to explode...
...AIDS experts, and they'll tell you the only way to control the epidemic is with a preventive vaccine. So why hasn't one been developed? It's not for lack of trying. Dozens of vaccines have worked in monkeys and against laboratory strains of HIV. But the virus mutates so quickly that no vaccine based on any particular strain is effective against them...
Suddenly, hand braces seem a la mode. People don't ask anymore when they see friends with braces on both wrists. Repetitive Strain Injury, or RSI, has become a way of life for many Harvard students. For others it is a common ailment they hope to avoid...
Earlier this year Coley invited Emil Pascarelli, M.D., co-author of Repetitive Strain Injuries, a Computer User's Guide, to speak to UHS physicians...