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...Tragic as it is, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, the AIDS research coordinator for the National Institutes of Health, the AIDS epidemic has provided important new insights into the immune system. "AIDS is the perfect disease for studying the immune system," he explains. "The virus destroys one of the + major cells of the system. So now nature is doing the experiment. It has just pulled out a major chip, and we're watching everything else go haywire." On the other hand, AIDS Expert Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute believes that much of the progress in AIDS research would have...
...narrative. First, the effort to persuade Mantegna's character to believe in the book takes place almost entirely offstage. Second, right up to the end it is impossible to tell whether the book is brilliance or bilge. If it is the former, then the ending is uncommercially tragic. If the latter, then the ending is a foregone conclusion and, however brief, takes too long in coming...
...Jerusalem last week ABC created a sort of demilitarized zone as Ted Koppel's late-night news program, Nightline, broadcast five nights of on-the-scene shows. The topics were the recent violence in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as other issues fueling the tragic conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. American TV once again was playing diplomat as well as journalist. And if the results were unlikely to be as dramatic as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1977 trip to Jerusalem (spurred by a few well-timed questions from CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite), the venture brought...
...gang wars have now become material for Hollywood entertainment. Dennis Hopper's Colors, an already controversial film about Los Angeles cops battling dope-dealing thugs, premieres this week. But no movie could convey the tragic impact of gang brutality on the lives of ghetto families. Consider the case of Peggy Graham, the mother of Stacey Childress. Last November another son, Ermond Easley Jr., 16, was fatally shot in the head and chest while standing a few blocks from the Coliseum. In February, Graham's 19-year-old brother Walter Dirks was murdered by two men who were trying to steal...
Last week Henson received a belated honor when his remains were reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery. The black pioneer now rests next to Peary under a granite marker. Declared Allen Counter, who led the effort to honor the explorer: "We are assembled here today to right a tragic wrong. Welcome home, Matt Henson...