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Guns N' Roses put out an album called Appetite for Destruction, which has sold more than 6 million copies. The jacket cover, featuring a robot looming over a woman in torn clothing, was so repellent that some record stores refused to carry the album. Says Tipper Gore, co-founder of the Parents' Music Resource Center and a longtime critic of rock lyrics: "Music companies are cultural strip miners, profiting from the sex and violence and ignoring the scars...
Coser, Ware and Kip Tiernan, a Bunting fellow and founder of Boston's first homeless women's shelter, said they found the Radcliffe community to be a nurturing, scholarly environment...
...clinical trials of new drugs. Neurologists using MEMS bottles in a Yale University study of a teatment for epilepsy found that two-thirds of the seizures suffered by the patients occurred at times when they had not taken the proper dosage of the medicine. Dr. John Urquhart, a co-founder of Aprex, thinks MEMS bottles can "save lives and minimize unnecessary hospitalization and diagnostic tests...
...other relatives of leaders read like entries in a Chinese Who's Who. Among them: Chi Haotian, 59, Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army and son-in-law of President Yang Shangkun; Li Tieying, 53, a rising Politburo member whose father was Li Weihan, a founder of the Communist Party; and State Councilor Zou Jiahua, 62, son-in-law of a famed army marshal...
...America's richest man? Forbes magazine says he is Sam Walton, 71, of Bentonville, Ark., the folksy, pickup-driving founder of Wal-Mart Stores (1988 sales: $20.8 billion). Last October the magazine estimated Walton's wealth at $6.7 billion. Forget about it, says Institutional Investor, noting that a portion of Walton's wealth is shared with four grown children. In its May issue the financial monthly says the richest man in the U.S. is Ronald Perelman, 46, of New York City, who has amassed a personal fortune of $5 billion in a mere ten years by assembling companies in businesses...