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...inside the country. His army and security forces are large and efficient. Despite spasms of discontent, like the riot last August that helped unleash the rafter exodus, there is nothing like a Tiananmen brewing. And unlike many similar leaders, he has surrounded himself not with cronies and coat holders but with the best and the brightest his country has to offer. He may be constrained by a terrible economy and his enduring faith in the failed ideology that produced it, but Fidel is not finished yet. The trick he is trying to master, however, is a neat trick indeed: modifying...
...political note: Granola types, who wouldn't sport a fur coat if their tempeh and grain medley depended on it, regularly hit the scene in these conspicuous coils of Real Fur. As Alexander Barylski '96, proud Hat wearer for four years, commented, "No one's spray-painted these Hats, yet." These Hats can do no wrong...
...favors and donations provoked growing scrutiny last week of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a Gingrich think tank that seems to churn as much cash as ideas. Declared Ellen Miller, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, ``It's just another way in which Newt Gingrich's coat has many pockets...
Undeterred by the skeptics, the medical pioneer forged ahead and joined forces with a private company to develop his treatment. Now Salk, 80, may get a chance to prove he has one more medical miracle up the sleeve of his lab coat. Last week an expert advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the agency allow Salk to test his AIDS vaccine on 5,000 volunteers. If the FDA agrees, Salk's preparation would be the first AIDS vaccine to undergo a large-scale trial...
...want to hear: the nation's health is fairly good but should be better, and the failings are mostly not medical. Public health depends more on private behavior--boring, heard-it-before considerations of how much we eat, drink, smoke and exercise-- than on whether somebody in a lab coat squints at a test tube and sees microbes turning up their toes. ``We need to realize,'' says Dr. Alfred Sommer, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, ``that `medical care' by itself still accounts for only a small proportion of actual lives saved...