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- Jan. 11, 1993: Health and Science:Et Cetera
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 11, 1993 Megacities
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- HEALTH & SCIENCE, Page 15
- Et Cetera
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- <body>
- <p> SO LONG, NOBEL
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- <p> Did Robert Gallo, of the National Cancer Institute, really
- isolate the AIDS virus in 1984, as he claims? Or did he culture a
- virus found by French researchers and then mislead the
- scientific community? A National Institutes of Health panel
- ruled last year that there were no ethical problems. Now a
- Health and Human Services report disagrees. It says Gallo didn't
- steal the virus. But a single sentence in his 1984 paper
- implying that no one could yet grow the French virus was ruled
- to be deliberately false and thus scientific misconduct. Gallo
- calls the report "incompetent."
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- <p> COALS TO NEWCASTLE
- </p>
- <p> What's dumber than hauling 85 tons of Antarctic ice halfway
- around the world to be showcased at Expo '92 in Seville?
- Hauling it back again. The Chileans are doing just that, thanks
- to environmentalists who railed against desecrating the frozen
- continent. Never mind that the theft left approximately 100
- quadrillion tons of the stuff still intact; the ice is now in
- Valparaiso, soon to head south in an insulated container.
- Antarctica will be whole--and the atmosphere will have to
- absorb an extra load of pollution, the by-product of fuel burned
- in shipping the berg back home.
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