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MOVIES . . . TOUCH: Writer-director Paul Schrader's sly and nicely understated adaptation of novelist Elmore Leonard's 'Touch' is the story of Juvenal, a Christ figure who has adapted to the modern era. Played by Skeet Ulrich, he has done time in the wilderness, suffers the stigmata and can cure the incurable by the laying on of hands. Otherwise, though, he's a cool dude. He likes girls, shows no particular interest in spreading any sort of gospel and turns a politely bemused face toward the hustlers and lowlifes who swarm around when word of his preternatural healing gifts starts...
...team can cure the Third Period Blues and maintain the intensity of last night's first two periods, it may yet prove Tomassoni right...
...miss something, or did Gates cure cancer while I was off surfing the Net? Sure, this is a bright guy who's defining a niche, but how much press coverage does he deserve? I think I've already read several pieces on Gates in your magazine over the past few years. While I appreciate PCs as much as anyone, I'm no more interested in details about the geeks who develop them than I am in the people who perfect cellular phones. Bring us the technology, but drop the hero worship. KEVIN C. THORNTON Finksburg, Maryland...
...creature who is often unreliable, unable to judge risk accurately or irrationally convinced that he is immortal and invincible. The solution to stopping the spread of AIDS is a vaccine to prevent further untold, unspeakable pain, suffering and economic hardship. The task is to develop a vaccine, not a cure. SARAH E. BLACKWELL London...
...cure can cost you. HOSPITAL PATIENTS pay as much as $4 billion a year for treatment of adverse reactions to drugs they're prescribed. Up to half the problems could be avoided with simple measures--like better tracking of patients' allergies...