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...Whooping cough afflicts ever more Americans because doctors and parents have become complacent about vaccination programs for the old-fashioned- seeming malady. So far this year 5,457 cases of the spasmodic cough have been reported -- the highest number since 1967. The disease can last several weeks, but it is easily preventable by vaccination...
...then there was the time when Greg Clayman was suddenly not fat four minutes before the curtain was supposed to go up, and I had to cough up Seth Mnookin's wig to feed him so he'd gain some weight...
About half the nation's two-year-olds are not fully immunized against mumps, measles, polio, whooping cough and five other childhood diseases. But critics said Clinton's original proposal, at $1.1 billion, was too costly and that parents' failure to take youngsters to public clinics, where free shots are already available, was more to blame than steep vaccine prices. Administration officials have acknowledged that among the major problems are clinic hours that are too short and lines that are too long...
MODERN MEDICINE CAN PREVENT A HOST OF CHILDhood diseases -- but not if kids don't get their shots. Only half of Americans age 2 and under are given the recommended vaccinations against measles, whooping cough and other diseases. In poor urban neighborhoods, the level is an appalling 10%. To deal with that tragedy, the Clinton Administration is looking at several proposals, including * a plan for the Federal Government to spend as much as $700 million to buy enough of various vaccines to give all children free shots. Currently, the required vaccinations for one child cost more than $250 -- up from...
...granddaddy of custom audio software is SoundMaster, a piece of "shareware" for the Macintosh that can be downloaded free from CompuServe and other computer networks (a $15 contribution for the programmer is encouraged). SoundMaster can instruct a computer to cough whenever the machine requests a floppy disk, burp when it ejects a disk or bark when it launches a program. Soon after it was released, a lively trade sprang up at user-group meetings for bootleg sounds tape-recorded from the TV and digitized in home computers, from Bart Simpson saying, "Thanks, man" to Porky Pig stuttering, "That...