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During this discussion, which increased in pitch until the fervent isolationists were advocating recalling Madeleine Albright, the German Fulbright scholar sat watching us, his eyes getting wider and wider...
...people suffering from the disease. In Africa, India, Thailand and to a growing extent Central and Eastern Europe, the treatment's price tag of up to $20,000 a year puts it way beyond the grasp of all but the superrich. "With this discovery, the AIDS gap only becomes wider," laments Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the U.N.'s AIDS program. To most AIDS researchers, it has become painfully obvious that drugs of any kind, no matter how effective, are not the solution to the world's deadliest epidemic. But a vaccine, which would address the problem...
...England Journal of Medicine: localized problems, notably the painful hardening of breast tissue, can accompany implants, but as yet no compelling evidence links the leakage of silicone gel to more debilitating disease. "This is the beginning of the end of the breast-implant litigation and may well have wider ramifications," predicts David Bernstein, a law professor at Virginia's George Mason University...
...task of coordinating our report on this stage of the AIDS epidemic fell to assistant managing editor Christopher Porterfield, who relished having a wider canvas than weekly coverage usually affords. "We could balance out many points of view," he says. "It's a volatile time. This is a breakthrough, yes, but who knows if it will prove temporary...
...however, Dr. Marc Micozzi, executive director of the college, has canceled the calendar, deciding that it presents the wrong image. Gretchen Worden, director of the Mutter, had hoped otherwise: "Our goal was to promote the museum and the College of Physicians to a wider audience--and we achieved that...