Word: treating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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USING CURRENT TECHNIQUES, DOCTORS MUST WAIT up to 18 weeks for laboratory . results to identify which drugs effectively treat strains of tuberculosis. Now scientists have come up with an ingenious assay that promises to cut that time in half -- literally by shedding a new light on TB. Their bright new idea comes from the same gene that makes fireflies glow...
Marc D. Zenlanko '95 also says that being white in the concentration presents no problems. "It's an academic department so they treat me as a scholar, not as a white, Jewish boy," he says...
...ransom and released their hostages, only to be captured by authorities, who tricked them into giving up their arms in exchange for the promise of safe passage to Guatemala. In a note left behind in the courthouse, the gang's leader said he needed the money to treat his cirrhotic liver. "Forgive me, Costa Rica," he wrote...
...indeed he seemed prepared to treat them that way. When negotiators asked him to send out videotapes to show the youngsters were safe, Koresh was happy to oblige. The tactic worked brilliantly for him. Agents were wrenched by the pictures, and even more profoundly engaged after Koresh began putting the children on the telephone. "Are you coming to kill me?" a tiny voice would ask. "Those kids' faces, you can still see them," says FBI agent Bob Ricks. "They are precious, innocent children, controlled by a madman...
...acquires if it can show they have a limited useful life. The opinion affirmed the Newark Morning Ledger Co.'s right to depreciate 460,000 subscriptions (valued at $68 million) that were obtained through the purchase of a chain of Michigan newspapers; the Justices knocked down IRS interpretations that treat such "intangible assets" as nondepreciable "goodwill." The ruling will benefit many other acquisitions, from bank deposits to pharmacy prescription files...