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...open, frozen in a terrified stare. Pools of blood fill the stumps of necks on headless torsos. The bodies of children caught in a bombing have been charred to cinders. The only discernible feature on a decayed corpse is the diagonal throat slash from right ear through to the spinal column-the ghoulish trademarks that every Algerian recognizes as the signature of the guerrillas who sprang from the outlawed Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.). "The fundamentalists are vermin," declares a government official. "We must wipe them out, even if we have to kill millions of people...
...declaration of independence from victim art. Some of her supporters have pointed out that feelings of pity or guilt can be used by artists as a bribe, just as an unearned emotion of political solidarity was often used in the 1930s. But novelist Reynolds Price, who has survived spinal cancer and last year published an acclaimed memoir about his experience (A Whole New Life), wonders if Still/Here represents a new body of art that will be increasingly hard to ignore. "There are a tremendous number of people who survive in ways that wouldn't have been possible 20 years...
DIED. DAVID COLE, 32, influential record producer; of complications from spinal meningitis; in New York City. Cole was one-half of the team behind the dance-fevered hits of C+C Music Factory (the other half being partner Robert Clivilles). The group scored with an mtv/aerobics-class classic, Gonna Make You Sweat. Cole won a Grammy for the sound track to The Bodyguard...
...only one of the promising developments being pursued in the hot new field of biological psychiatry. What was once the purview of priests and analysts, who try to probe the mind by listening and observing, is now a frontier for neuroscientists, who use blood tests, brain scans and spinal taps. Psychiatrists at some research centers are already using these tools to distinguish among types of depression and schizophrenia, and predict with some degree of certainty the best course of treatment for their patients...
...Although the majority of infants in the U.S. regularly see a doctor, research indicates that more than half the nation's babies fail to get all the vaccine shots they need during the first seven months of life. Many have no protection against spinal meningitis and whooping cough...