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...ended, and a government absorbed in massive transition relegated the disease to a back page. An attempt at a national education campaign wasted millions on a farcical musical. The premature release of a local wonder drug ended in scandal when the drug turned out to be made of industrial solvent. Those fiascoes left the government skittish about embracing expensive programs, inspiring a 1998 decision not to provide azt to HIV-positive pregnant women. Zimbabwe too suffers savagely from feckless leadership. Even in Botswana, where the will to act is gathering strength, the resources to follow through have to come from...
...instead of AA help matters? The problem with diversity in the airline business, some experts say, is that there's a reason why TWA went out of business in the first place. David Stempler, president of the Air Travelers Association, told the senators that the carrier, solvent or not, would be unlikely to survive...
INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH Industrial solvent is not most people's idea of a nutritious beverage, yet that is exactly what folks are ingesting when they consume potions containing 1, 4-butanediol, a chemical cousin of the illegal "date-rape" drug GHB. Though so-called dietary supplements containing 1, 4-butanediol are banned--and the pure stuff can melt a plastic-foam cup--1, 4-butanediol is still peddled on the Internet for its supposed body-building, aphrodisiac and energy-boosting powers. Researchers report that in 1999 at least six Americans suffered coma, seizures or respiratory arrest after ingesting 1, 4-butanediol...
...clue is the "200C" on the label. What this means is that whatever active ingredient Oscillococcinum began with--in this case, duck heart and liver (no quack jokes, please)--has been diluted beyond all imagining. First, one part of the active ingredient is combined with a hundred parts of solvent. Next, the mixture is shaken and diluted again at one part per hundred--a process that is repeated a total of 200 times. Finally, sugar granules soaked in the resulting solution are enclosed in six capsules a box, good for two days of treatment...
...features a similarly tightly planned structure. She repeatedly prints out the Arial font capital "I" over a piece of computer paper, minutely skewing some of the resulting lines. Then she combines eight of these patterns and transfers them onto a larger piece of paper using wintergreen oil as a solvent. The effect is unique, and the subtlety she gets out of a single letter is initially surprising, but these pieces pale in comparison to her paintings. Crosstown Arts, which opened only a few months ago, attempts to highlight emerging contemporary artists, and McNaught, who has only shown in Massachusetts thus...