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Merck & Co. will provide free Crixivan, an experimental AIDS medicine, to 1,400 people in the later stages of the disease. Recipients will be selected by a special lottery within the U.S. Last month Hoffman-La Roche Inc. created 2,280 slots for a similar lottery to receive the AIDS drug Invirase...
...most telling assault was issued on the Internet by Donna Hoffman and Thomas Novak, associate professors of management at Vanderbilt University. When contacted by TIME prior to the cover story's publication, Hoffman made some of her concerns known. But she -- and TIME -- was constrained by exclusivity terms imposed by the Law Journal that prevented her from seeing the full study before Time's cover went to press...
...that they have seen the study, Hoffman and Novak say that Marty Rimm, who wrote it while an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon, grossly exaggerated the extent of pornography on the Internet by conflating findings from private adult-bulletin-board systems that require credit cards for payments (and are off limits to minors) with those from the public networks (which are not). Many of Rimm's statistics, Hoffman and Novak argue, are either misleading or meaningless; for example, the study's now frequently cited claim that 83.5% of the images stored on the Usenet newsgroups are pornographic. Hoffman and Novak maintain...
...couldn't begin to cover-we work opposite shifts. Our parents have even taken over our car payments. We often marvel at the fact that two well-educated white-collar workers like ourselves are worse off financially than most of our less-schooled, blue-collar neighbors. ANA M. WAGNER-HOFFMAN Germantown, Maryland Via America Online...
Always approaching Ec 10 in size is Historical Study A-12, which for years was taught Dillon Professor Joseph S. Nye Jr., now a top official at the Department of Defense. Mellon Professor of the Social Sciences Stanley H. Hoffman has now taken over the course...