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Barnett is one of 51 AIDS patients who, along with six doctors, took part in underground trials of Compound Q this past spring and summer. The clandestine study was organized by Project Inform, a San Francisco-based group of activists who believe the Food and Drug Administration's system for testing potentially life-saving new drugs is unconscionably slow. On Sept. 19, Project Inform director Martin Delaney revealed the preliminary results of the underground trials to an intent crowd of some 500 predominantly gay men in San Francisco. Although many of the trial's volunteers, including Barnett, showed a marked...
...home made all the difference for Michael Mazzafro, now 17. The son of an alcoholic, drug-abusing mother, he spent six years shuttling back and forth between foster care and his mother's home. At last he was adopted by a Pennsylvania couple, but his behavior soon proved too much for them. While they made arrangements to terminate the adoption, he was stashed in a hospital for more than a year. That's where he was when Joe Mazzafro, a Philadelphia bachelor now 39, took...
Early stability may be especially important to the prospects of drug children, especially crack babies. "George," just ten months old, has already endured surgery on his throat and intestines. When he arrived at the Children's Institute International in Los Angeles six months ago, he weighed only 5 lbs. "He looked like a child assigned a set of skin three times too big," recalls Sheila Anderson, director of the infant's shelter at C.I.I. Crack babies frequently have trouble keeping down their food. Given to spasms, trembling and muscular rigidity, they resist cuddling by arching their backs, an early sign...
...children who haven't yet been freed for adoption, and then adopt them as soon as legally possible. "Parents don't have to go to Korea or South America if they ! want to adopt an infant," says adoption-services director Ferrer. "Get a home study done, which takes six weeks, register with an agency as a pre- adoptive foster parent, and you will get a child a few weeks later...
...mishap killed all 171 people on board. Yet in the week following the two crashes, the Washington Post ran an identical number of stories, five, about each. The Los Angeles Times published almost twice as many stories about the New York City crash (ten) as the one in Chad (six). In the New York Times, the LaGuardia crash rated twelve stories, the Chad disaster six. The networks reacted similarly: ABC's Nightline, for example, aired three cut-in reports and, later, a full show about the LaGuardia accident but nothing about the Chad crash. (TIME ran three paragraphs...