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...AMFAR (American Association for AIDS Research) who recently sat on a CDC external review for prevention programs. "There's absolutely no question that the resources are grossly insufficient to the need." Adds Barbara J. Wood, board member of the mainstream National Association of the Deaf: "I wear a red ribbon every day. I am angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aids | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...shoes and cowboy boots, taking pride in a collection of special creams and pastes and an electric buffer, which he brandishes like a weapon. He knows all the kitchen gadgets, cleans up the dishes, measures his vodka martinis by eye. Barbara's passion is a special wrapping room with ribbon and paper holders for the endless stream of birthdays that confront them. The walls and tables of the house are covered with paintings and photographs of family and historic White House moments. There is even a Frank Sinatra primitive painting of the Washington Monument. It's all so far from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Grandfather in Chief | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...member of the "media elite." wasn't specially selected by a blue-ribbon panel. I'm not Grade A anything. I was never inspected by Number 12. I've done this for two years and now I can say things like...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: The Sports Column | 3/22/1994 | See Source »

...Hanks, "Phildelphia"--Awarding the red-ribbon-cause, not the actor...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: OpArt | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

Jack Wiggens is probing the nearby rubble of what was once a Bullock's. A structural engineer who serves on Mayor Richard Riordan's blue-ribbon panel on retrofitting city buildings, he believes that the Bullock's, which made up part of the mall, probably should have been retrofitted. Similar observations are being made by many regarding the numerous major highways crippled by the quake. After the area's last big temblor, in 1971, L.A. swore it would strengthen its freeway bridges. But costs slowed the project, and the legislature voted down a 2 cents-per-gal. gas tax that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: Tales of the City | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

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