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As trouble erupts over DDI, Dr. Jonas Salk of polio-vaccine fame has a different idea. He thinks AIDS patients may be able to boost their resistance through injections of his Salk HIV immunogen (which consists of inactivated pieces of the virus). Tests with 90 AIDS volunteers at the University...
Copley was a secretary from Iowa who married her boss, James Copley, and at his death in 1973 hesitantly took over his press fiefdom. Surprisingly, for a reticent, private figure, she proved to be a hands-on publisher who expanded the Copley newspaper chain and quadrupled its worth to more...
"A lot of kids used to say, 'Ha, ha, shut up, shrimp,' " recalls Jonas Devlin. The Stratford, Conn., eighth-grader is not disabled or deformed; he is merely very short. At 13, he is 4 ft. 7 in., or 6 in. shorter than 97% of the kids his age. But...
But now that new genetic-engineering techniques have made the production of HGH possible, it is much more widely available and more readily used. Today thousands of youngsters like Jonas, who have normal hormone levels but a family history of shortness, are able to take the hormone.
Yet for many unhappy kids who suffer from extreme shortness, the prospect of even a couple more inches seems worth the trouble. Jonas Devlin has no dreams of being a Larry Bird or a Michael Jordan. His goal is considerably more modest: "I would like to be tall enough so...