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Granted, the testing is probably safe. But who, even experienced doctors and medical researchers, can really foresee the effects of new drugs or fifteen days of irregular sleep patterns on a person's body? Perhaps something like, "EARN UP TO $1,000 IN 2 WEEKS" is appropriate for a moving company advertisement, but for a laboratory looking for human "research subjects? For their purposes, the hospital's advertising techniques are completely uncalled for. In essence, they are treating the matter as Saatchi and Saatchi would treat a Coke ad, and that's not right...
...next morning, everything was gone. Smoke hissed out of melting cracks, and an occasional small fire burned. All the signs of life were there, but everything was hushed. Later, officials announced that the fire was probably caused by arson. On Saturday, Santa Barbara was declared a federal disaster area. Fifteen years of daily notes and books half written, of statues and photos and memories, were gone. My only solace came from the final irony. In the manuscript I had saved, I had quoted the poem of the 17th century Japanese wanderer Basho, describing how destruction can sometimes bring a kind...
Interesting group to be talking about economic hardship. Fifteen were lawyers, one an engineer, two academics, a preacher, a couple of bankers, an economist, two career pols and a former businessman who is the President. He is one of the few in that fraternity who actually met a payroll, and that was 24 years ago. Mississippi's Jamie Whitten, 80, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has been in Congress since 1941. The average conferee has been cashing those beige federal paychecks like clockwork for better than 20 years: no worries about Chapter 11 bankruptcies, layoffs, plant closings, Social Security...
...voices of disabled Vietnamese soldiers are only a small echo of the sometimes hopeful but often disenchanted and uncertain views voiced everywhere in Vietnam. Fifteen years after the fighting ended on April 30, 1975, the country remains impoverished and embittered. While it has been at peace since most Vietnamese troops left Cambodia last September, there is great discontent over living conditions and an annual per capita income of less than $200, far below that of South Vietnam in 1975. Last year 75,000 boat people set sail for the refugee camps of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, attempting to escape...
Some of the bafflement arises from a curious inability to come to terms with a failed policy, with America's greatest military defeat. But it is also due to the continuing attitude of the U.S. Government. Fifteen years after U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin slipped away in the predawn darkness of a collapsing Saigon, the U.S. has yet to establish diplomatic relations with the government of Vietnam. Washington continues to act as if Hanoi had sent its troops to invade Virginia instead of down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Since 1975, the U.S. has imposed a trade embargo against Vietnam that...