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...gone so far as to call for a return to a more thorough drug-testing process, even if it means postponing the approval of new treatments. Perhaps most stunning of all, the activists would agree -- under certain conditions -- to so-called placebo trials, in which some patients receive a sugar pill in place of an experimental drug. Just a few years ago, activists were unanimous in denouncing such traditional testing methods as unethical when it came to the treatment of AIDS. But then doctors and patients started to complain that the speeded-up approval process didn't provide them with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Not Be Too Hasty | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...trying to patch together a normal life. Government workers returned to their desks last week from August vacations. Children put on their maroon uniforms and went back to classrooms lacking books, pencils and paper. In the streets of Havana, the gossip has turned from Castro's woes -- the bad sugar harvest, the new taxes, the problem of prostitution -- to the rafters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's a Poor Patriot to Do? | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...west, in the Nuevo Vedado district, Eugenio, a sports trainer, produces his ration book. For July he was allotted 6 lbs. of rice, 10 oz. of beans, 1/2 lb. of oil, 3 lbs. of sugar, 1 oz. of coffee, one bar of bath soap, three packs of cigarettes. No meat. In May it was rice, beans, sugar and coffee; no oil; no soap; no cigarettes; two cans of beer. No meat. Yet Eugenio will not be rafting. He is a master of resolviendo -- the Cuban art of barter, the cut corner, the gray market. His wife works in a cigarette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: You Can't Eat Doctrine | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...Administration argues that isolating Castro is the best way to make him democratize, adopt market reforms and compensate Americans for property seized during the revolution. Other countries trade freely with Havana and have long , since struck compensation deals for their own seized assets. But with Cuba's economy in sugar shock -- the yields in cane fields have slumped to levels not seen since the 1920s -- the embargo's boosters hope it will break Castro's back. "Ending the embargo is his No. 1 foreign policy priority," says a U.S. official. And what Castro wants, Washington opposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Time to Lift the Cuban Embargo? | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...hand it to the resolutely rustic citizens of Vermont: they know how to bend outsiders to their will. Outraged by the thought of Wal-Mart megastores sprouting among their sugar maples and dainty shops (Ye Olde Wal- Marte?), antigrowth protesters have repeatedly fought off America's No. 1 retailer and made their state the only one in the country to remain Wal-Mart free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Against the Wal-Mart | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

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