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Meanwhile, clinical and molecular researchers are launching a biological attack on the virus. Their objective: the development of vaccines to prevent its spread and drugs to treat those already infected. But the AIDS virus is a formidable adversary. Because it can reproduce so rapidly, says Harvard's Haseltine, it can mutate frequently, changing its outer coat (the essential ingredient in making a vaccine) 100 to 1,000 times as fast as quick-changing flu viruses. As a result, he says, "trying to develop a vaccine for AIDS is like trying to hit a rapidly moving target." Scientists are now searching...
...programs have been adopted for the most part in districts facing enrollment crunches. Los Angeles, for example, expects its student population to climb by some 13,000 pupils over each of the next five years. With twelve-month scheduling, educators can spread the larger number of pupils through existing classrooms. Commonly, two-thirds to three-fourths of the student population can be in attendance, with the others off on rotating vacations. Los Angeles has saved at least $250 million in school construction funds since the YRE programs started...
DIED. Herbert Scoville Jr., 70, authority on nuclear arms and articulate advocate of their control; of cancer; in Washington. He worked on the development of atomic weapons for the Defense Department (1948-55), and after serving with the CIA (1955-63) devoted himself to preventing their spread and use as assistant director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1963-69), and as head of the private Arms Control Association, an organization he helped found in 1971 to educate the public...
Castro claimed to know nothing of Vesco's finances or movements. He charged that the CIA had spread the story about Vesco's hideout, declaring that "they may want to gouge out his eyes, strangle him, make him into ground meat." The Cuban President was especially piqued because the renewed interest in Vesco stole attention from Castro's call for Latin American countries to repudiate their collective foreign debt, which totals some $360 billion. BOLIVIA Sour Smell of Success...
...that Rose admires viciousness. "I know," he says, "people picture me running over Ray Fosse in the All-Star Game [of 1970]." Scoring the winning run, Rose spread the catcher like apple butter. Fosse's shoulder and career came unhinged. "I wish it hadn't happened," Rose says. "It ruined that kid." But he adds, "I'm glad we won the game." Regarding comparisons with Cobb, Rose joins in few of the arguments. "I don't steal bases like he did, and he didn't wear a tie on the road like I do." It will be fine with Rose...