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Although some of Angell's concerns are understandable-after all, the Tuskegee experiments were sanctioned-they appear ridiculous when applied to these particular clinical trials. She misleads readers as to the reasons and intentions of these studies. "Research in the Third World looks relatively attractive as it becomes better funded...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: Ethical Imperialism Revisited: AIDS Research in the Third World | 9/23/1997 | See Source »

Almost everyone considered that a perfectly ridiculous idea. Since 1985, when he founded the company that would become America Online, Case has jousted continually with the doubters. Even his loyal board members lost the faith: in 1987, after a particularly rough patch, they were ready to fire him until someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW AOL LOST THE BATTLES BUT WON THE WAR | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

This Methuselahan march up the demographic ladder also poses a challenge to the youth worshippers in Hollywood and on Madison Avenue who have grown accustomed to targeting audiences between the ages of 18 and 49. "We have the entire marketplace in a ridiculous state of denial, and it's costing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGE IS NO BARRIER | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

I am hard-pressed to have the willpower to sit down in a quiet room to write or read, knowing full well that the quiet is a fragile illusion wont to be broken by any family member steamrolling through, wanting the use of a television or a telephone and creating...

Author: By Bonnie Tsui, | Title: At Home, Desirous of Inner Space | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

She is discovering that being on her own has downsides she didn't have to worry about when she was the wife of a record mogul. Carey became a tabloid target earlier this year when she accompanied Q-Tip to a New York City nightclub. One columnist wrote that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

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