Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somebody threw an unknown object from DeWolfe St. at Quincy House last night, breaking a large third-floor common room window and slightly injuring one student resident...
...proving to be more powerful and less toxic than cyclosporine. In more than 100 patients taking FK-506 for up to eight months, the rate of organ rejection was only one-sixth as high as in those using cyclosporine. Side effects were minimal, though long-term consequences remain unknown. The Food and Drug Administration calls the preliminary research "very exciting," but approval for general use may be years away...
...when electricity and telephones and highways are knocked out. By the time most networks closed down for the night after five or six hours of coverage, San Jose and Santa Cruz were still disconcertingly cut off from contact, the scope of the tragedy on Oakland's I-880 was unknown, and it had been impossible for reporters to convey the full flavor of what life was like for 6 million residents of the Bay Area on a night they will never forget. "The instinct of journalists is to have it tidy," says Brokaw. "In this case there were many loose...
Comparing the plight of Hispanics with that of Blacks, Raoul Yzaguirre, president of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group, and currently an IOP fellow, said that the "legacy, history and struggles of Hispanics in this country are largely unknown by the American public...the media simply wasn't focused on the civil rights struggle of the Hispanic community...
...said early descriptions of AIDS as "fatal," "mysterious," "out-of-nowhere," and "unknown" influenced the public's perception of AIDS. Later, television focused primarily on gay, middle-class white males for story material or photographed poor Blacks shooting crack in dark alleyways, stereotyping AIDS as a disease of drug abusers and gay men alone...