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...same vein, some extremely expensive technologies are used even before it is clear that they're needed. That may be the case with at least one new biotech drug, Centoxin, which is available on a limited basis to treat hospital-acquired infections that can cause fatal septic shock (estimated cost: $3,800 a dose). Trouble is, since the condition can kill so quickly, doctors will have to decide whether to administer the drug before they are sure the patient needs...
...food distribution, the garment trade and waste hauling. "Never in a million years did I dream that Sammy would turn," says ex-hit man Nicholas (the Crow) Caramandi, who is now a protected federal witness. "He and Gotti rose up together. They were very close. This is a shock...
...beings can resist their impulses," ("Caritas," p.38) i.e. that with enough perseverance gays can discover true moral and physical satisfaction through the practice of heterosexuality. The fact that Peninsula ignores the abundantly documented failure of a multitude of efforts to convert homosexuals, among them prolonged subjugation to electro-convulsive (shock) therapy, neither surprises nor concerns us here...
Last week, however, Magic delivered what was clearly his most serious shock. At a press conference on the ground he has made his own, the Great Western Forum, home to the Los Angeles Lakers, Johnson, 6-ft. 9-in. tall and 32 years old, at the top of his career, announced that he had been infected by the human immune-deficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS and would "have to retire from the Lakers today." Although he has as yet no symptoms of AIDS, the man who had defied gravity, and belief, for so long would suddenly, overnight, vanish from...
...that decision might sound like a bit of self-justifying commercialization, it should be kept in mind that another lively cut on Apocalypse is titled How to Kill a Radio Consultant. Radio has not bridled. Public Enemy can get away with saying what it wants, whether it's lambasting shock-effect journalism (A Letter to the New York Post) or coming down hard on black drug dealers who exploit their fellow blacks ("Got tha' nerve as hell, to yell brother man") and on liquor interests whose black-oriented sales pitches are "selling us pain." Rebirth, with its observation that...