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Equal protection. A central instrument of court power has been the 14th & Amendment. Though drafted in the post-Civil War era chiefly to ensure just treatment for blacks, it extends its guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law to "any person," allowing the court to invoke it to cover women, aliens, illegitimate children and sometimes the poor. Bork defends the landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case on the ground that the intent of the 14th Amendment contains the "core" idea of protecting blacks from government discrimination. But he finds no similar intent to protect...
...bricks are also getting a beauty treatment. Workers use a cutting and pointing process to cut out existing defective stone joints and replace them with new mortar, said Walter H. Packard, president of Chapman Waterproofing, which is in charge of the masonry work. Then workers use koppers bitumastic tank solution, a pitch compound, to repaint the bricks and restore their original appearance...
Known as granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, the drug boosted the victims' count of white blood cells, the body's primary defense against infection, after just ten days of treatment. The additional cells could help AIDS patients fight off bacteria, viruses and other life-threatening microbes. Groopman believes GM-CSF could one day be used to treat a variety of diseases. "This is the first time that anyone has been able to regulate the white- blood-cell count in man," he says. "There are implications for cancer patients and people with bone-marrow disorders...
...will be ) marketed under the trade name Mevacor. It is the first of a new class of compounds specifically designed to control cholesterol production. Says Scott Grundy, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas: "This is the first practical treatment for very high cholesterol levels...
...Valentin Pokrovsky, a Soviet AIDS specialist, said in June that only seven patients, six of them foreigners, were undergoing hospital treatment for AIDS in the Soviet Union. About 30 foreigners had been treated and deported, he told TASS, while six more would be sent home later. He also said that the one Soviet patient, a homosexual who had caught the disease during a trip abroad, had infected 14 others, presumably all Soviets, who had been treated in a hospital and sent home but were being kept under observation...