Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Researchers are also creating vaccines that consist largely of antigens synthesized from chemicals on the laboratory shelf. When these vaccines prove ineffective, scientists can now usually determine why. Says M.I.T. Molecular Biologist Malcolm Gefter: "Today, when a vaccine doesn't elicit a protective response, it is possible to detect what is or is not working -- the B cells, the T cells, the lymphokines, whatever." Scientists can then "fix" the vaccine. For example, the 1985 vaccine against Hemophilus influenzae Type B, which causes bacterial meningitis, was only partially effective; although it protected older children, it did not work for babies under...
...students who are turning away from business may feel that the salad days of corporate deal making are gone, but college advisers also detect a heightened sense of altruism among today's seniors. Says Victoria Ball, director of Brown's career-planning service: "Maybe it's the negative image of yuppies, but students are realizing that money isn't everything in life." Still, most of them will be making more of it than their predecessors...
EXITE, part of a NASA Balloon and Rocket Campaign to observe a supernova, number 1987A, launched a balloon carrying a telescope into the atmosphere to detect high energy x-rays emitted from the exploded star. The launching was scheduled to take place at the end of April...
...ever ready to put their faith in what appears to be scientific evidence, despite estimates that 20% of all tests performed are unnecessary. Worse, owing to sloppy laboratory work or doctors' mistakes, the results are too often wrong or misinterpreted; thus they may actually harm patients by failing to detect serious diseases or by indicating illness when none exists...
...exaggerated tonalities of glamour-trash fiction. As a result, White Mischief plays as something a lot of people claim to have been missing for years, a good-bad movie. It will shock some of the innocent, titillate others and amuse the sophisticated, who will not be wrong if they detect a certain gleam -- probably wicked, possibly cynical -- in the director...