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...people over 35, buy more records than teenagers do. They account for 29% of the units sold, compared with 18% for the 15-to-19 age group, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Until last year, the effect of that purchasing power was disguised by the sketchy oral reports drawn from record stores canvassed for the Billboard pop charts. But last year the charts began relying on SoundScan, a firm that compiles computerized bar-code information from cash registers. On the May 25 pop chart, the first based on the SoundScan data, 15 more country albums showed...
Terkel, 79, put oral history on the best-seller lists. History may be too strong a word. What Terkel does is refine and package the radio call-in show between hard covers. It is a natural step for the man who for 35 years has been the host of his own talk show on Chicago's WFMT. In his checked shirts, and suits that look like they are sent out to be cleaned and rumpled, Terkel is the city's most recognizable author. The dapper Saul Bellow would be a close second. Scott Turow's commuter camouflage renders him nearly...
...unusual case has worked its way to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and the justices heard oral arguments in the case earlier this month...
...oral vaccine, developed by Dr. Hilary Koprowski of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute, was made from weakened polio viruses grown in a culture of monkey kidney cells. Several monkey viruses have been known to contaminate such cultures, though vaccine makers now take pains to weed them out. Extrapolating from a number of coincidences -- the testing of the vaccine in the very site where AIDS is thought to have begun; Koprowski's recollection that he cultured the virus in the tissue of green monkeys, a species that harbors a virus similar to HIV -- writer Tom Curtis hypothesizes that the vaccine was contaminated...
There are problems with the theory. It is not clear that HIV can survive oral ingestion. Also, if the noxious seed was sown in the '50s, why didn't African doctors notice it sooner? Curtis offers possible explanations, but the clearest resolution would be to test the original vaccine stocks, still on ice at Wistar, for HIV-like viruses. Wistar officials last week said they would form a committee "to evaluate the Rolling Stone speculations." Meanwhile, there is no reason to worry about standard polio vaccines: they are rigorously screened for contamination...