Word: tatting
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...people march and the grim realities of the past and, often, the present, are forgotten in a global surge of pride and unity. The reality has often been less inspiring -- in Hitler's Berlin in 1936, in the Munich beset by Palestinian terrorists in 1972, in the tit-for-tat cold war boycotts of 1980 and 1984, not to mention the myriad smaller moments when political bitterness or personal dishonor or random fate blemished the panorama of joyful striving. But whatever the misdeeds and mischances, the myth continually reasserts itself and endures. So it is always a surprise when...
...study appearing in the December 1 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that a mixture of two drugs--pentoxifylline and Ro24-7429--was 100 times more effective than either drug alone at blocking the function of "Tat," a viral protein essential to the spread of HIV in the body...
...inhibiting Tat, the scientists conducting the study sought to prevent HIV from reproducing itself after it has infected a cell...
...Powel H. Cazanjan, assistant professor ofmedicine and director of the AIDS program at theBrigham and Women's Hospital said in a phoneinterview yesterday that while there has beenexperimental evidence to support the effectivenessof other drugs to block the Tat protein, "so farthe clinical experience with tat inhibitors hasnot been fruitful...
...woman, who carried a hand-lettered signreading "Coup de Tat," spoke of her love forKennedy and her feelings of hopelessness andabandonment after his death...