Word: tracee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strongest evidence that some people are immune to viral infection comes from Africa, where scientists are studying 58 Nairobi women who have worked as prostitutes. None of them show a trace of HIV in their systems, though each has had unprotected sex with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of HIV-infected men. Scientists suspect their blood may be blessed with killer T cells that are particularly ferocious, able to totally annihilate the invading virus before it can take hold and replicate. (See pictures of Africa's AIDS crisis...
...nine cases, babies who were initially positive on both tests became antibody negative within months. Researchers subsequently found no trace of the virus in six of those youngsters. The results indicate that the children have either cleared the AIDS virus from their systems or developed a permanent tolerance...
Cambridge (AP)--The booming field of biotechnology can trace much of its success to research and graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a new study shows...
...famous painter and one of India's most controversial women. But since he is literally writing for time, the Moor throws in a whole lot more: everything he has heard or can remember or dream up about his mother's family. The eccentric and marvelously fractious Da Gamas trace their lineage, perhaps incorrectly, to the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who was the first European to reach India, thereby launching the spice trade that made the Moor's forebears wealthy. "Mine is the story of the fall from grace of a high-born cross-breed," the Moor notes, although...
...discomfiting episode, Tom tries to set up his balding doctor pal Herb (Paul McCrane) with a lusty ad executive. When the plan seems to backfire, a crushed Herb laments that "it's all about looks, image, sex appeal." And then he adds, still without a trace of irony, "I thought it would be different when I got older. I thought people would judge me for my accomplishments. I saved a guy's life today, but nobody cares." Are those unexamining twentysomethings really so bad after...