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...antismoking crusaders who want to ban cigarette advertising, the Camel ad was a handy piece of evidence. "The most appalling in decades," declared physician Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen, a Washington consumer group. The four-page Camel ad, which was aimed at vacation-bound youths, offered tips like "how to impress someone at the beach: Run into the water, grab someone and drag her back to the shore, as if you've saved her from drowning. The more she kicks and screams the better...
...rarely have patients seemed so ungrateful. Eighty years ago, a sick man who consulted his physician had roughly a fifty-fifty chance of benefiting from the encounter. The doctor's cheery manner and solicitous style were compensation for the uncertainty of a cure. "Medicine originally was mainly talk," says Sidney Wolfe, a physician who directs the Public Citizen Health Research Group in Washington, "and very little effective diagnosis and treatment...
...Hara-Forster, Jeanne- Marie North, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, Rosemary Byrnes, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Tam Martinides Gray, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac...
...Hara-Forster, Jeanne- Marie North, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, Rosemary Byrnes, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Tam Martinides Gray, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac...
...howls of protest from the arts lobby are timely since the NEA this year must undergo its five-year budget review. Congressman Sidney Yates of Illinois, a stalwart supporter of the arts whose subcommittee oversees the NEA, has asked acting endowment chairman Hugh Southern to come up with a way to make the endowment more accountable for its grants without opening the door to congressional micromanagement. Southern says he hopes to produce "something that's agreeable to all parties that doesn't get into any kind of chilling of expression...