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Suppose you are at risk of a genetic disease that threatens to render you unrecognizable to yourself. Physically, you realize, the disease will slowly erode your body to an incontinent mass of uncontrollable jerks and twitches. Mentally, it will eat away at your brain cells, impeding your ability to remember, pay attention, reason. And emotionally, it will blacken your days with irritability and all-consuming depression. Worst of all, you know that the disease cannot be prevented or stalled, arrested or cured. To learn that you have the offending gene is to receive a virtual death sentence that leaves only...
...Correspondent Christine Gorman reports, the comparison won't wash, "because there is still an open question as to what the effect of AZT in utero is." Not to mention that HIV can also be passed from mother to child by breast-feeding ? common enough in the Third World to render AZT treatment futile. While the researchers' ethics may be in question, the CDC is still far away from Tuskegee...
What's more remarkable, all this is only a small part of an Allen A.M.E. antipoverty empire that sprawls across a 26-block stretch of southeastern Queens. To stroll the neighborhood is to see how much can be done when Caesar begins to render unto the church. Allen A.M.E. has used federal funds to provide the community's elderly with 300 subsidized apartments in the Allen Senior Citizens Housing Complex, along with meals and recreational activities. It has transformed abandoned city-owned lots and state mortgage subsidies into 50 affordable suburban-style two-family homes. Down the street from...
Although she said she cannot determine the full impact of the proposal, Spiegelman said that it would render a number of University structures including Adams House, Kirkland House and Memorial Church "nonconforming." This designation would mean that any substantial renovations to the buildings would require a special permit from the city, something Spiegelman termed a "substantial administrative zoning process...
...them. There are no formal, verbalized rules of etiquette, just a silent code of conduct governing the vast unknown: thou shall not make accidental physical contact with thy seat mate; thou shall not speak; thou shall not meet another's gaze. To do any of the aforementioned would immediately render one "psycho," society's swift condemnation on deviation...