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James Q. Wilson is a professor of management and public policy at UCLA whose books include The Investigators...
...months later, no N.F.L. team seemed to want him. The 49ers and Bill Walsh became interested only after they worked him out at UCLA two days before the draft. As Sam Wyche, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach who was then the quarterbacks coach for the 49ers, recalls, "What really impressed us was that he could immediately put into practice any coaching suggestion. He would literally eat the words right out of your mouth. Call it what you will--intelligence, intangibles, charisma--that's what we saw in Joe." But even at that, Montana still had to wait behind starting...
...disease--and no definite idea of what such a weapon would even look like. Under these demoralizing conditions, any scrap of progress, no matter how tenuous, triggers an enormous surge of hope. It happened again last week with a report in the New England Journal of Medicine: doctors at UCLA announced that a five-year-old boy, infected with HIV at birth, has been symptom-free ever since. More important, over the past four years the scientists have not been able to detect even a trace of HIV in the child's system...
...Yvonne Bryson and Irvin Chen, who led the UCLA study, are convinced he was. His mother was HIV-positive when she gave birth, and blood tests at 19 and 51 days showed that the baby carried the virus too. But when the researchers retested the child at 11 months of age, the virus was gone. That seemed so wildly improbable that the scientists conducted more tests and still found nothing. When they re-analyzed blood from the earlier tests, though, the virus was still there. Could the samples have somehow become tainted with HIV in the testing lab? Such contamination...
...there any doubt? For one thing, the UCLA researchers can't explain how the child could have fought off the virus, especially since a baby's immune systems isn't fully functional until the age of 18 months or so. Moreover, the HIV in the baby's and the mother's blood is genetically different. That could be, as the UCLA researchers assert, because the mother's virus wasn't studied until a year after the birth, and had time to mutate. Even if the baby did pick up HIV from his mother, that doesn't mean he was infected...