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...leading international economist. "We were reluctant to run deficits out of fear of creating sky-high inflation. Now there is a global bank-teller window that is open 24 hours a day, and we've been one of the most frequent customers." Sachs warns, however, that the bender cannot last. "We're faking it," he says. "Our living standard isn't being maintained by higher productivity or wages. It's maintained by foreign capital...
...year at the Bastille. The conductor claimed he would spend at least seven months there and wondered aloud how much time Berge was planning to take off from Saint Laurent to work on opera. "When he refused to accept my conditions," Berge declared, "we broke off negotiations. I cannot let the money of the state be spent in so extravagant a fashion." And he did not like Barenboim's slurs, either. "I am not the head of any old couture house," he said. "I built a fashion empire out of nothing...
...same cannot be said of intravenous drug abusers, who are generally oblivious to educational campaigns about the risk of sharing needles. "Either the message is not getting to them," says Moss, "or it's not getting to them in a way they can understand." Despite the specter of AIDS, the number of addicts is still rising. At drug treatment centers run by New York City's Beth Israel Medical Center, 13% of the patients currently seeking treatment had begun shooting heroin in the past two years. "Given the information that's out there, that's pathetic," says Dr. Stanley Yancovitz...
...STDs cannot be dismissed as a controllable collection of "social diseases." The open genital sores that many STDs cause can be gateways for the AIDS virus. If left untreated, STDs can cause severe consequences, including heart damage and birth defects. Some 7,000 STD-related deaths occur each year in the U.S., many of them in infants born to infected mothers...
GENITAL WARTS. Possibly more common than herpes are the tiny warts caused by the human papilloma virus. Like herpes, the disease cannot be flushed out of the body. The major complication appears to be a higher risk of cervical cancer in women...