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...boggle factor was most intense in Time Warner's Future Services exhibit, where more than a dozen potential services were on display -- from sports on demand to an instant medical-checkup service. In one such service, rock musician Todd Rundgren showed off his interactive music system, which allows customers to select listening choices by artist, style, tempo or mood. In another, ShopperVision demonstrated its "virtual" supermarket, where customers can browse 3-D aisles, choose among 20,000 kinds of packaged goods and order for same-day delivery...
Sohad Ahmad, an impoverished Egyptian farmer's wife, knew nothing about the huge United Nations population conference going on 50 miles to the north, in Cairo. For her, family planning was not a global issue but a personal, practical matter. Getting a checkup last week at a health clinic in the rural town of Sinnuris, Ahmad laughed when a nurse asked if she was pregnant. "No," she replied, "we know pregnancy is an evil now." She and her husband, Sohad explained, had decided to stop after two children because of the expense of raising a large family. Ahmad...
Prompted in part by reports about low-milk syndrome, the American Academy of Pediatrics is considering a recommendation that mothers bring their newborns for a checkup when the babies are just three or four days old. That might have made all the difference for Bradley Erwin...
...book represents a diagnostician's exhaustive checkup of his new community, in which he finds as many hidden fears and lesions as in any of his patients. He meets a preacher who has "penile, rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea." He hears of macho truck drivers who have quick liaisons with men because they don't charge, and he learns of married men in church making dates with the gay men they know. Most of all he listens with sympathy to the woman who begs him to keep her son's disease a secret so she won't have to endure "faggot...
Each time Lisa Jones arrived at an East Baltimore, Maryland, health clinic for a pregnancy checkup last year, the 19-year-old was given a yellow voucher worth $10. After 10 visits, in which she improved her diet and learned how to care for an infant, she gave birth to a healthy baby daughter. "There are a lot of girls out there who are naive," Jones says. "The vouchers are a good way to get them to come...