Word: helper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Late night procrastinators still cannot purchase the new soda in Harvard Square. Local vendors--like Sage's, Store 24 and Christie's Market--do not yet carry the product and give no date when they might stock the lightning-clad cans. The closest vendor which offers the all-nighter helper is Bloomingdale's at the Chestnut Hill Mall...
...effect was indeed extraordinary. By mid-September there had been 16 deaths among the 137 patients receiving the placebo and only one among the 145 taking AZT. Those being given the drug developed fewer AIDS-associated infections, gained weight and showed growing numbers of helper T cells (the immune-system cells attacked by the AIDS virus) in their bloodstream. The independent review board of AIDS experts, set up by a division of the National Institutes of Health in February, promptly recommended that the study be halted and the drug given to the placebo patients...
...police of Bolivia's antidrug unit are known) on four raids. In the first one, 30 of the troops jumped out of two choppers near a 15-tent drug complex just as a Cessna aircraft was landing nearby. The pilot fled into the jungle, but his 17-year-old helper was seized. The raiders destroyed a log-frame laboratory where coca leaves were converted into coca paste...
...very affectionate. I'm very lucky." There are children in their future. And a Durang; Chris and Sigourney will keep acting, writing and capering. Though Weaver says she would "play anything -- a broom, a mop" in a Woody Allen film, she wants to be more than a housewife's helper in other roles. "Usually women in films have had to carry the burden of sympathy, only coming to life when a man enters. Doesn't everyone know that women are incredibly strong?" Right you are, Sigourney. Anyway, no one would argue with a woman who patented perfection, then showed...
Both Groopman and Hirsch have found in laboratory tests that HTLV-III attacks not only the T-helper lymphocytes, but also another type of white blood cell, called a macrophage, that has been linked to cells in the brain. The macrophage or disease-fighting white blood cell is not killed by the virus, Groopman says, but instead is used as a breeding ground...