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...reruns when, after a brief stint channel-surfing, I found myself in the midst of a prostitution sting operation somewhere in southern Florida. Narration was unnecessary as I instantly recognized the genre of the program: it was a "Cops"-type show styled after "NYPD Blue" in a sick rendition of art imitating art imitating life. As usual, the setting was seedy and the cast of characters--from pot-bellied sheriffs to pouty chainsmoking whores--left me wriggling uneasily in my La-Z-Boy recliner, eager to switch my mood along with the channel back to sitcom simplicity...
...Diego last spring. As A&W president Fred Williamson resigned Wednesday, Mexican agricultural officials went into damage-control mode, arguing that the berries were probably contaminated during processing and shipping. The only reported illnesses so far have occurred in Michigan, where 151 students and a teacher became sick after eating the fruit last week. Schools in California, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa and Tennessee, also received the bad strawberries. Health officials in Los Angeles said up to 9,000 students and teachers who recently ate the berries would be offered protective gamma globulin shots, a treatment that is usually effective...
...only 4,500 HIV-positive youngsters under age 13--most of whom were infected in the womb. Children are not just smaller, cuter copies of adults. Their immune systems are not yet fully developed. Their brains are more vulnerable to HIV. When they get sick with AIDS, many of them deteriorate more rapidly than adults. They need treatments tailored to their size and condition. "But pharmaceutical companies do not perceive pediatric drugs as a huge market share," says Glaser, chairman of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation co-founded by his wife with two of her friends in 1988. "They...
...their babies only once every other day. "Look at me," says Andre Miku, a retired mechanic whose children are hungry because he has sold the television set and the refrigerator and now there is nothing left to hawk. "I've grown so thin. It's not because I'm sick. There is simply no food. I used to be a very strong man. Now, I am the walking dead...
...making his pitch. In Baltimore, Maryland, he remembers, Sister Mary was the first to endorse the project. "Sign me up!" she said. In the end, 678 nuns who were 75 or older enlisted. To them, participating in the study seemed an extension of their mission to care for the sick and the poor. "A person with Alzheimer's disease," said an elderly sister, "is one of the poorest people I know...