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SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, David Brand, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Gregory Jaynes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...
Until the Administration reached its policy regarding testing, Washington's principal weapon in the battle against AIDS had been fear. Health and Human Services Secretary Otis Bowen has likened the disease to the black death, while Koop has preached about the dangers of AIDS for every sexually active heterosexual. Such alarmist warnings have caused an epidemic of anxiety, and many scientists and researchers are claiming that such widespread fears are unfounded. Koop admits that his dire statements about AIDS are not universally accepted in the medical community. But, he argues, "as a health officer, I have to say that...
...What has been lost today by families, many lawyers, young people, evangelists, Wall Street speculators, Presidents, and industrialists and bureaucrats who allowed the Challenger to blast off is the sense that they are accountable to others, as well as themselves, for their actions," Bowen says. "We live in a time characterized by intense self-centeredness...
...Bowen demonstrated in his first Ethics story (on AIDS, Feb. 2) and in his discussion of the legal views of Attorney General Edwin Meese III (ESSAY, Aug. 11, 1986), he does not shrink from judgment. "I'm no holier-than-thou type," says Bowen, "but it has been my experience that the best guys I've known in life have had profound ethical concerns." At the top of his list of ethically minded people is his late mother, the prominent biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen, whose books chronicled the lives of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., President John Adams...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, David Brand, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Gregory Jaynes, John Leo, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...