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...untreated HIV-positive mothers develop the infection themselves. The use of AZT during pregnancy has cut that transmission rate to 8%. In the next few months researchers will begin putting HIV-infected mothers on combination therapy with protease inhibitors to see if they can cut the rate to zero. But protease inhibitors are so much more powerful and potentially toxic than AZT that no one knows what harm it might do to the developing fetus...
DIED. KINGSLEY DAVIS, 88, sociologist and demographer who coined the terms population explosion and zero population growth; in Stanford, California...
...final game of last year's match, for instance, Deep Blue let its bishop get trapped on the edge of the board, with little power and zero mobility. The awful tragedy of the edge-locked bishop wasn't fully salted into its code base at the time, so the poor computer was oblivious to the depth of its positional peril, and Kasparov won the game handily. But things won't go so easily for mankind this time around. Says a pleased Benjamin: "Deeper Blue understands more about bishops--when they're good, when they're bad, how to use them...
...think of 40-mile-an-hour winds and zero-degree weather as a big deal," says JOHN FAHNER-VIHTELIC. That's probably because he has endured far worse. In 1977 he lay for 16 days without food, pinned above the dashboard of his station wagon after it plunged 150 ft. off an embankment in Washington State. He escaped with his life (partly by throwing his shirt into a nearby stream and sucking the moisture out of it), but not all of his limbs. The loss of his left leg hasn't slowed the 48-year-old down, though...
...Board's penalties force students to drink in the closets with the lights out or to hold parties constantly in fear that the proctor is suddenly going to break in and round everybody up. The University's zero-tolerance policy toward alcohol and drugs does not decrease consumption on campus but pushes it into the unlighted and locked rooms of the Yard, the Grille and the Final Clubs. Seedy establishments, but the only places where it is safe for one to drink. Is this good? No! It breeds unhealthy drinking habits...