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That won't be any time soon. With millions of victims and hardly any confessed perpetrators, road recklessness has become the car-related sickness du jour, deposing (for the moment) drunk driving from its long-standing reign. Like drunk driving, the issue has energized America's vast machinery of social concern. The Federal Government is spending money on research, Congress has held hearings, law-enforcement authorities have held seminars and developed special enforcement programs, and psychologists are treating it as a genuine, stand-alone disorder. There are Websites devoted to the topic, including one--the Database of Unsafe Driving--that...
...eyes had been blackened in skirmishes at the Beanie Baby counter at Toys "R" Us? The enthusiasm for dressing as Christmas trees brought back painful memories of the Alzheimer's facility where my father spent his final days in a perpetual countdown to the holiday du jour. THE NEXT HOLIDAY IS ARBOR DAY (or whatever), a giant poster near the nursing station announced, AND IT'S ONLY 15 DAYS AWAY...
...waltz, while the singers onstage danced what was ostensibly the pachanga. Or the success of the Bat's corny "He is the goose to be cooked...watch while I baste." Even better was the faux-Gallic banter between Eisenstein and Frank, neither of whom spoke French: "affaire?" ... "Camembert!"; "du jour?" ... "I' amour...
BOSTON: It is the health issue du jour: has the U.S. been experimenting on humans in its studies of HIV-positive pregnant women in developing countries? The New England Journal of Medicine thinks so ? their normally temperate editorial page this week was devoted to a blistering attack on the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control. The organizations have been giving the AIDS drug AZT to half of the infected mothers in their international study, while the other half get placebos ? and according to the journal, this is as ethically shaky as the notorious Tuskegee study, a 1950s...
...earn Thornton, who also wrote and directed Sling Blade, an Oscar nomination or two next week. The tale of Karl's return home after 25 years in a mental hospital, and of the awful temptations to repeat his crime, has already turned the actor into Hollywood's guy du jour. Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor, Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise are vocal fans of the film, and Thornton's fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton is expected to screen it at the White House soon. A perennial supporting player, Thornton is now getting fat roles in A pictures: as Sean Penn's nemesis...