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DIED. GIL KANE, 73, self-taught comic-book artist whose half-century career included reviving Green Lantern in the late 1950s and the Atom soon after, and reinterpreting other great superheroes, from Spider-Man and the Hulk to Captain America and Conan the Barbarian; of cancer; in Miami...
...true, the earlier date casts serious doubt on several controversial theories that purport to trace the beginning of the epidemic to the 1950s--specifically to experimental polio vaccines made from chimp tissue and tested in parts of Africa. A more likely scenario: the virus passed from animal to man during hunting and butchering when human and infected chimp blood intermingled...
...Twenty One" is a remake of a 1950s game show that was mired in scandal. It became the focus of the popular 1994 movie, Quiz Show, starring Ralph Fiennes and John Turturro...
...those sanctions probably won't be enough to keep controversy at bay. The Los Alamos findings are at odds with the hypothesis proffered in the recent tome "The River," suggesting that HIV can be traced to chimpanzee tissue used in the development of the polio vaccines adopted in the 1950s. According to Korber's team's hypothesis, the current number of HIV strains means that in order for the virus to have originated from that vaccine, 10 different strains of the virus from different monkeys would have to have been part of each vaccination, and that, most scientists agree...
Harvard has included international development consulting under a variety of names since the mid-1950s. From 1962 until HIID's birth, Harvard's Development Advisory Service did the bulk of this type of work...