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...fate (or name), the Carvey show illustrates the increasingly blurred line between programming and ads on network television. Of course, the ad-driven medium has never been a pristine art form, its practitioners not generally averse to bending over backward to please sponsors. But lately, advertising's osmotic bleed into entertainment has turned into an arterial gush. Murphy Brown wrote John F. Kennedy Jr. into a script so he could promote his magazine, George; Diet Coke hired the writers and producers of Friends to create a mini episode-cum-ad starring the entire cast; and, most famously, Elizabeth Taylor spritzed...
...chances of contracting the AIDS virus in the ring? Pretty remote, according to most researchers. The skin is an excellent barrier against all kinds of microbes, not just HIV. And even if two opposing boxers suffer cuts at the same time, that doesn't mean transmission is inevitable. Cuts bleed out, making it difficult for the other person's blood to seep in. Furthermore, healthy athletes don't usually have that much HIV in their blood anyway; in the first decade of infection, most of the virus is trapped in the lymph nodes...
Beau pinches his nose as the three girls in the group, Kathleen, Jenny and Iliana, gather around and make a dot on a slip of paper so the ink can bleed into its base colors...
...rays taken in May reveal that Dole's heart shows no signs of coronary disease. Like many Americans who were raised on a fatty diet, however, Dole suffers from diverticulosis, a condition in which small pouches of tissue form within the intestinal lining and may occasionally bleed and cause discomfort. A daily regimen of Metamucil and foods high in fiber has successfully kept him from experiencing any painful episodes as a result of this ailment...
...abandoned building, the medical team finds an empty coffin, waiting like carrion. One by one, neighbors explain, the family that lived there died. First the daughter, 18, went to the Kikwit 2 maternity hospital in late March for a caesarean section. When she got home her incision began to bleed. Then her organs began to melt. The red-black sludge wiggled out of her eyes, her nose, her mouth. Soon her parents got sick. Her father, some villagers believe, died of horror: he told his wife that if she died, he would die too on the next Friday...