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...retirement to tackle AIDS, many people cheered-especially the growing numbers of patients infected with hiv. Who better to lead the charge against the current plague than the conqueror of an infamous childhood scourge? Within the scientific community, though, there was more doubt than expectation. AIDS was a tougher target than polio, and few experts believed that Salk's approach to making a vaccine would work...
...keep united and under its control, are easier said than done. But so is completing the half-measure interim agreement that is meant to be temporary in any event. These two parties are ready for a divorce. The longer they stay together in a strained union, it seems, the tougher it is to agree on terms...
Most houses and commercial structures that went up after 1980, when Japan's building code had its last major revision, are still standing. But more than 80,000 older buildings suffered serious damage. The government has promised tougher standards for new buildings, but the immediate challenge is how to improve existing structures. Says Charles Scawthorn, vice president of EQE International, a San Francisco firm that specializes in quake-resistant engineering: ``This is the real heart of the seismic-hazard problem...
Tomorrow night's game against Cornell figures to be a tougher contest. Cornell is tied for fourth in the Ancient Eight with a 2-2 record (7-9 overall) and is the second most prolific scorer in the league at 73.8 points per game. However, Cornell is coming off losses to Brown and Yale...
After a relaxing weekend, however, the women have a much tougher team to contend with next--Princeton...