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More imaginative approaches to drug development are essential. "What we need to do," says Dr. Fred Cohen, a biophysicist at the University of California at San Francisco, "is start selecting new targets based on our understanding of the biology of the organism." Already scientists are thinking up strategies for attacking the malarial parasite based on the knowledge that it lives off human red blood cells. Cohen is exploring ways of making hemoglobin appear unappetizing to the parasite, thereby causing it to starve to death...
...schemer, vetting the prince's girls, not for their potential as royals but "to see how much a threat they posed to her own relationship." When the naive Diana said she didn't enjoy hunting, Camilla, a horsewoman, brightened at once. Then there was the discovery of Fred and Gladys -- the pet code names by which Charles and Camilla communicated -- gifts, flowers, notes...
...Bush-Quayle high command tried to counter this brewing insurrection last week by dispatching campaign manager Fred Malek to Capitol Hill. Malek gave House Republicans an upbeat private briefing and a slick brochure trumpeting the President's accomplishments. But many G.O.P. lawmakers felt patronized and berated Malek and his campaign colleagues for the message "vacuum" that has allowed Democrats Bill Clinton and Al Gore to pull some 30 points ahead of Bush in the polls. Minnesota's Vin Weber said several of his colleagues sarcastically urged the Bush-Quayle campaign to stop "sitting on our lead." Meanwhile, some of Bush...
Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said that there would be little difficulty in including the provision. "We are already talking about it...[and] concluded we wanted to go that way anyway," he said...
...women in 1991. Though the state senate has passed a bill that would make assisted suicide a felony, the house has yet to follow suit. "We have more consumer protection for people buying a car than we do for people making this type of decision," says state senator Fred Dillingham, the bill's sponsor...