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...publicity push is crushing. One thousand scarlet pennants, 2,500 calendars, 5,000 guidebooks and more than 4,000 t-shirts trumpeting "A Tradition of Remarkable Women" have been distributed, but Radcliffe College still has an identity crisis...
Retail sales for audio books (which typically cost around $17 for a two- cassette package) reached $1.2 billion in 1993, up 40% from the year before. Titles and celebrity readers are proliferating. Sharon Stone has just been signed to narrate The Scarlet Letter. Gone With the Wind is about to be released on tape for the first time, unabridged on 30 cassettes. "Nine years ago, only 8% of the population had heard a book on tape; now it's close to 25%," says Michael Viner, co-founder of Dove Audio, a nine-year-old Los Angeles company that helped pioneer...
...speed and grace of the 1943 cartoon that directly inspired it: Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood. Catch it some night on cable's Cartoon Network. The Wolf enters a club called the Sunset Strip ("30 Gorgeous Girls -- No Cover"), and starts palpating when Red, in a scarlet bustier, sings Daddy. Wolfie goes bats: chairs fly, factory whistles blow, mechanical hands clap. And Red is worth every libidinal leer. With her Bette Davis voice, Betty Grable legs and Betty Boop bosom, she is any wolf's bedtime fantasy -- way too hot for the '40s, and plenty sulfurous even today...
...severe, invasive strep A different is that the microbe itself is "ill," infected with a virus. The virus tricks the bacterium into pumping out a highly toxic chemical. Among the possible effects: a catastrophic drop in blood pressure (which contributed to the death of Muppetmeister Jim Henson in 1990); scarlet fever; or, as the recent news reports point out, "necrotizing fasciitis," an illness that can eat away fat and muscle at the astounding rate of up to one inch an hour. If that last process starts, the only treatments are antibiotics and the cutting away of affected tissue, including limb...
...question is whether killer strep is on the rise. Some experts think it's not. But even those who say the bacterium is spreading believe this is part of a recurring biological cycle, not a new phenomenon. The scarlet fever epidemics of the 1930s and '40s were caused by invasive strep A, and there were reports at the time of necrotizing fasciitis. After a deadly run through the population, the bacterium subsided; most victims had either died or developed immunity. The big difference this time is better treatment. While some strains of strep are showing resistance to some antibiotics...