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...shamelessly traditional it's almost radical. While elsewhere in pop, bands like Nine Inch Nails scream such lyrics as "I want to f -- -- -- you like an animal," the Boyz uphold a quaint gentlemanliness. Women aren't objects of lust; they are cherished. "Girl, your wish is my command/ I'll submit to your demands," go the lyrics to I'll Make Love II You. Monogamy is celebrated. "Wanna build a new life," goes On Bended Knee. "Gonna make you my wife/ Raise a family." Boyz II Men has found a niche by seeming to be blissfully unaware of its cultural...
...Army parlance, a "hot zone," an area that contained lethal, infectious organisms. An Army team, wearing space suits, killed the 450 surviving monkeys by lethal injection, and the cadavers were place in plastic bags for disposal. Before the building was boarded up, the Army sterilized every square inch of the interior. Dcotors monitored employees and Army ( personnel who had been exposed to monkey blood. Eventually it became appparent that the Ebola Zaire strain at Reston was harmless to humans. Yet the virus is considered to be a continuing menace. "A tiny change in its genetic code," Preston writes...
...endorsed, pointedly preferring the Gephardt proposal. At a private meeting with House Democrats earlier this week on trade issues, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen was asked how much influence he had with the Clintons on health-care strategy. Bentsen held his thumb and forefinger about an eighth of an inch apart, shrugged and steered the conversation back to free-trade legislation. Says a House Democrat: "There is a sense of complete chaos around here...
...another admiral taken the fall over an incident that was actually the fault of those below him? Anyone who thinks that picking off admirals is an unfair tactic in the sexual-harassment wars should look at the 10-inch file in the Hansen case, and at the fact that it took the intervention of three members of Congress -- Senator Paul Wellstone and Representative Bruce Vento in addition to Durenberger -- to get the Navy brass to pay attention. Durenberger told TIME last week that the Navy still hasn't given him an unedited report on the Hansen case...
...possible effects: a catastrophic drop in blood pressure (which contributed to the death of Muppetmeister Jim Henson in 1990); scarlet fever; or, as the recent news reports point out, "necrotizing fasciitis," an illness that can eat away fat and muscle at the astounding rate of up to one inch an hour. If that last process starts, the only treatments are antibiotics and the cutting away of affected tissue, including limb amputation. Even so, death can come in three to four days...