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...factors as media-fueled momentum but because they did the best at winning delegates from all corners of the country. Not only would this widen the process of groping toward a post-Reagan consensus, it would also be the best way to reduce the tribalism and factionalism that now infect both parties...
...spreading like wildfire." That conclusion, the result of a CDC study released last week along with a preliminary report by President Reagan's AIDS commission, was little comfort to many Americans: AIDS has killed nearly 27,000 people in the past seven years, and is expected to infect a quarter of a million more by 1991. Nonetheless, the two reports met with cautious approval, even among critics, for the Administration's attempt to find some way out of the AIDS nightmare. Said Martin Delaney, a San Francisco AIDS activist: "They are moving in the right direction. The report doesn...
...humane as well, carefully controlled, and sparingly used at the center. He says many researchers now use tissue cultures, DNA studies, and other "alternative" methods rather than live monkeys in studies to study the effects of disease. In the 1960s, he says, it was far more common to infect a group of animals with a deadly disease to see how it progressed. "90 percent of our research really does use alternative methods," Hunt says...
...improbably heartening resolutions, there are lessons American movies might learn. Still, one retreats with relief to the accustomed elegances of a well-made film like The Whistle Blower. To be sure, the paranoia that long ago settled damply around our spy dramas seems to have drifted eastward to infect Writer Julian Bond and Director Simon Langton. Their story has the British espionage establishment protecting a highly placed mole by murdering innocent, clerkish underlings in an attempt to convince its American allies that it is doing something about a leak the latter are complaining about...
Disclosures of hypocrisy and moral laxity infect leadership from Washington to Wall Street, tainting even television evangelists and the Semper Fi U. S. Marines. Do the transgressions represent a general shunning of values that Americans have always held dear, or are they merely a temporary blot brought about by the mindless materialism of the '80s? See ETHICS...