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...viruses sniffed out by American hackers since 1982. (Didn't a certain medical epidemic start around that time?) Some of them--like the Kennedy virus, which leaves innocent messages on the screens of infected users on every anniversary of the deaths of JFK, RFK and Joseph Kennedy--are harmless. Others--like "Joshi", "which wreaked havoc upon Harvard's Office of Physical Resources--have serious attitude problems. Other viruses--Yankee Doodle, Blackjack, Dukakis, to name a few--have yet to reveal their destructive power. (For my money, Dukakis won't do anything...
...FRANCISCO--Violet the orangutan is on the pill. King L'ear the bison was rendered harmless with a bovine vasectomy And Maxine the cougar is using a Norplant-style implant...
...other side of the ((breast-implant)) story." Public health? Slicing women's chests open so that they can be stuffed with a close chemical relative of Silly Putty? Yes, indeed, because the plastic surgeons understand what the FDA is so reluctant to acknowledge: small breasts are not just a harmless challenge to the bikini wearer or would-be topless entertainer. They are a disease, a disfiguring illness for which the technical term is micromastia...
...badly needed economic aid, conditional on a prompt agreement to maintain effective control of nuclear weapons. The West should then offer to pay for, and send experts to supervise, the disabling of as many weapons as the republics want to shed. Great masses of warheads could quickly be rendered harmless by removing their tritium bottles and krytron triggers. And the key is to move immediately. The forces of dissolution in the former Soviet Union are picking up startling momentum, and the West must not be lulled by the fact that for the moment, the nuclear warheads remain under the hands...
...testimony was impassioned on both sides. Implant manufacturers brought out reams of safety-test data, claiming their products were essentially harmless. Some users spoke of gaining self-esteem by reshaping their bodies, and of a psychological boost in battles against breast cancer. But others told stories of pain from internal scar tissue, diseases they attributed to the implants, and deformities suffered when the prostheses ruptured or shifted. In the end, though, the panel voted unanimously to recommend that implants stay on the market, and FDA Commissioner David Kessler is expected to concur...