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Pharmaceutical companies insist the high prices are necessary to finance new-drug development. That's certainly true, at least initially. Yet many of the recent breakthroughs have been paid for by U.S. taxpayers. AZT was discovered by the National Cancer Institute and given to Burroughs Wellcome (now Glaxo Wellcome). DDI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics And AIDS Drugs | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

This is an album about loss: the passing of heroes, the withering of beauty, the end of an age--one song is titled Elegy for William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Despite the subject, the mood is never dour. Nearly every track has the liquid warmth of a freshly shed tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Elegiac Cycle | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

This is brisk, epic storytelling. Like a shaman in a village circle, the film spins the old saga, made familiar in the Edgar Rice Burroughs books and nearly 50 films, but with a fresh and affecting power. Now it is a safari into the interior of Tarzan's conflicted soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Him Tarzan, Him Great | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Meagher said he felt the University is betraying its humanitarian ideals and those of some its graduates, citing Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs '36 and John F. Kennedy '40.

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Rally for Guards' Wages | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Contrary to myth, blacks don't always carry the names of their family's last slaveholder: slaves could change hands numerous times without changing their surname, points out Tony Burroughs, who teaches genealogy at Chicago State University. In the case of biracial children born to slaves, it is often impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genealogy: Roots Mania | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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