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...Russian economy. Some are samaritans; some are charlatans. Many are looking to make a quick buck; others are searching for adventure. There are even two people named Dr. Jeffrey Sachs. Harvard's Jeffrey D. Sachs, 37, is better known. But there is also Jeffrey A. Sachs, 38, a dentist who was once a social-policy adviser to New York Governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo. Jeffrey A. runs Ecolink, a New York City-based project that is trying to show the Russians how to use public finance to build an AIDS hospital in Moscow and grain-storage facilities...
...have diametrically opposed views of how to cure the Russian economy. While the economist draws on his experience in Bolivia and Poland to urge radical reforms, the dentist draws on his work on New York City welfare programs to say the Russians must go slow...
...your neighbor and smile, turn all around and smile. I like fellowshipping. I like to see people hug a lot." As one leaves the huge parking lot, a sign proclaims, YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE MISSION FIELD, and people drive out smiling the gospel of Fresno. A prosperous-looking dentist's office has on its sign: DR. SO-AND-SO, D.D.S., DENTISTRY FOR SMILES...
Surely there are only a handful of people in the U.S. who have not heard about or witnessed on television the suffering of Kimberly Bergalis -- the 23- year-old Floridian who contracted AIDS from her dentist. Her anguished letters and poignant testimony before Congress have sparked a nationwide campaign, endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to test health- care workers for HIV and inform their patients if they are infected...
...last week the New York State health department decided to put Bergalis' plight into perspective. She is but one of 1 million HIV-infected Americans and one of only five ever to have been infected by a health-care worker -- all five by the same dentist. These facts, state health officials concluded, did not merit what they saw as a witch hunt to track down and expose every health- care worker who carries the deadly virus...