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...this murderous, mechanized century? Details change from book to book, but a number of constants recur. The hero is typically a Southerner and a loner, a weirdo in the eyes of friends and relatives, whose despair at the decline of civilization has lured him into alcoholism, drug addiction or rampant crankiness. His struggle back toward health and sanity is usually undertaken with the help of a younger woman, who may be as wounded a victim of modern life as he. The saving grace is just that: a recognition that Christian, specifically Roman Catholic, teachings can still offer hope to lost...
...their life-style or environment, have a high risk of being exposed to AIDS. Zagury took a step in this direction late last November when, with approval from the government in Kinshasa, he gave his experimental vaccine to eight healthy volunteers in Zaire, a country where AIDS is rampant. If they remain free of the infection and experience no side effects, a wider test might be warranted...
Elevators, the scourge of mankind, run rampant in the corporate world--a world where sweaty ugly people are forced by omnipresent hell-machines into unnatural proximity, their most aggravating habits torturously magnified in confinement...
...many takeovers. While the volume of mergers has more than doubled since 1980, the number of federal court challenges to proposed transactions has declined by more than a third. Complained Democratic Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio during hearings held last week by a Senate subcommittee: "Merger mania is rampant in this country today because the Reagan Administration has turned its back on antitrust laws." Metzenbaum has proposed legislation that would limit hostile takeovers...
...Allergy and Infectious Diseases: "The potential is devastating. Even the reality is a very serious situation." Still, few experts expect that AIDS will penetrate the heterosexual population in the West as rapidly or as pervasively as it has in Africa. The reason: factors such as unscreened blood transfusions, rampant venereal disease and unsterilized hospital needles are not common in Europe and the U.S., as they are in Africa. In addition, vigorous AIDS education campaigns appear to have the potential to slow down the rate of new infections...