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...population of 60 million. Yet Thailand's ability to produce drugs locally has forced the multinational companies to drop prices. Until last year, Flucanazole, an important antibiotic used to fight a fatal form of meningitis that accompanies AIDS, cost $7.36 a tablet. This year the Thais began manufacturing it locally, and the price dropped to $1. Glaxo Wellcome reduced the price of AZT to less than $1 per tablet after Thailand began making its own version...
Before hitting the U.S., Springsteen kicked off the reunion with a triumphant sweep through 20 cities in Europe that began in April. All eight members of the band--including his wife, guitarist and backup singer Patti Scialfa--are back, older, wiser and, in virtually every case, better. Max Weinberg's chops have improved considerably during his stint as band leader for Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Clarence Clemons' sax work displays nuances and noodlings that were absent from his bombastic style in the '70s and '80s. And the return of Bruce's original sidekick from his Asbury Park...
...remembered all this last month as MTV began airing its newest and highest-rated season ever of The Real World. In an effort to relive my past, and possibly give MTV enough busywork to prevent it from developing any more non-music-video programming, I asked the station to dig up my tryout tapes...
...Summers began his political career shortly after his graduate studies. Beginning in 1982, he served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under Feldstein, his former dissertation supervisor, who was chair of the council at the time...
...tour seemed what one could expect until we reached the athletic fields, and there my education began. "Harvard is our big rival in all the sports," I was informed, "though especially in hockey." He related how opposing teams got frozen fish and newspapers thrown at them on the ice, and how this was all great fun, especially against Harvard, and that a win against Harvard can make any team's season. Harvard's football, soccer and hockey teams always draw the crowds to help Cornell prevail, he said...