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...Monday night Cambridge City Council resolution instructed city officials to explore whether Cambridge could imitate Boston's needle exchange program for intravenous (IV) drug users...
...current furor, says Bernie Zilbergeld, an Oakland psychologist and longtime critic of Masters and Johnson, stems from what he terms their "chronic inability to be precise." For example, he asks, how do they know that their 400 nonmonogamous study subjects were not bisexuals or IV drug abusers? Epidemiologists long ago learned that people often admit to risky behavior only after they have been told they test positive. Yet Masters and Johnson did not extensively question their subjects about high-risk behavior...
...danger is that the furor will divert attention and resources from the real heterosexual epidemic -- the one raging in the inner city among IV drug abusers, their sexual partners and children. The alarmist prophecies promoted in Crisis may discredit ongoing efforts to control the disease. "This plants the seeds of distrust in a group that the public should be able to look to for answers," argues Mervyn Silverman, former San Francisco public health director. Crying wolf, as Masters and Johnson have done, is no way to fight an epidemic...
...rental income. (The price is typically reduced eight or nine months later.) But a few studios, notably Paramount and Disney, have pioneered prices of under $30 for first-run releases deemed to be collectible. These include pop entertainments like Raiders of the Lost Ark, cult faves like Star Trek IV and children's classics like Lady and the Tramp (the biggest-selling movie yet released on video). Industry observers believe E.T., with its enduring family appeal, will wind up in the low-priced camp...
...admiral's proposal to spend nearly $2 billion a year in federal, state and local funds to beef up the war on drugs is the strongest signal yet that the commission believes the IV drug problem, if left unchecked, could result in the spread of the AIDS virus to the heterosexual population. Equally important, Watkins has shrewdly sized up the role the country's health- delivery system must play in combatting the devastation already caused by AIDS -- and found it badly wanting. The chairman's recommendations, which are expected to be approved by the full commission this week before going...