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Adventure breathes throughout Hemingway's story: there's no doubt about this. The running to the front to save the soldier, the near loss of a leg -- this is all great stuff. But the fatal choice of two decidedly flat mainstream stars somehow reflects the movie's mindset that the story of Hemingway and a general idea of Hemingway's own character and conflicts with his nurse are enough, when what we really want to see is Hemingway, no-holds-barred, as close as they...
...three to four years down the road," explained FDA Commissioner David Kessler. "By saying that cattle and sheep cannot be fed any products that cause this disease, we are in essence erecting a fire wall that will reduce whatever risk humans have even further." Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, an often-fatal human condition similar to "mad cow disease," attacks brain tissue. Scientists believe cows become infected by consuming feed containing animal parts, which are sometimes used to increase the protein content of their food. In Britain, where at least ten people have died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob during the past two years...
...immune system. More than 15 years after the first rumors of "gay plague" spread through the bathhouses of New York City and San Francisco, nearly 30 million people--gays and straights alike--have been infected by HIV, the virus that causes what has been, until now, an almost invariably fatal disease...
...solution to the world's deadliest epidemic. But a vaccine, which would address the problem, is not a top priority in Western laboratories. Indeed, with the new optimism on AIDS, some are beginning to talk about reducing funding for basic research. That, according to Piot, would be a fatal error. "As long as HIV exists somewhere in the world," he says, "it threatens...
Kinsley tries to tie together the fortunes of liberalism and libertarianism. That is a fatal flaw in his argument. Liberalism views marijuana use and gay rights as morally equivalent, while libertarian thought does not attach any morality to either of them. JON ACKER Tuscaloosa, Alabama...