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...know all this makes me sound like a big hypocrite. But is it better to be a person of integrity or a guy with a sweet, sweet stretch of superclean road...
...victim of severe aplastic anemia, a rare, puzzling disease in which the bone marrow loses its ability to produce three essential components of blood: the white cells that fight infection, the red cells that transport oxygen to the tissues, and platelets for clotting. Only by confining Teddy to the superclean room and giving him repeated transfusions have doctors managed to keep him alive...
...hormones and other drugs to stimulate bone-marrow activity (it is impractical to inject patients regularly with normal white cells both because white cells ordinarily live only a short time and because the patient quickly develops toxic reactions). Teddy, it was hoped, would be protected from infection by the superclean room until his bone marrow revived. Judging from earlier cases, the doctors optimistically expected the case to be resolved in a matter of months, a year at the outside. The theory, says the NCI's pediatric branch chief, Dr. Arthur Levine, was: "Teddy would either recover...
What went wrong? Longtime observers point out that the department's reputation as a superclean force may have lulled the community into smugness about the police. Both Cincinnati's city hall and its two daily newspapers were tame watchdogs. Said one dismayed patrolman: "The top man has been indicted; it couldn't be much worse. There is a dark cloud hanging over all of us." So much so that when Acting Chief Myron Leistler took over, one of his first acts was to replace the entire 13-man vice squad...
...Break Today, almost as familiar as The Star-Spangled Banner. But the chain's managers have wrought their greatest achievement by taking a familiar American institution, the greasy-spoon hamburger joint, and transforming it into a totally different though no less quintessentially American operation: a computerized, standardized, premeasured, superclean production machine efficient enough to give even the chiefs of General Motors food for thought. In the $8 billion-a year fast-food industry, McDonald's is only one of dozens of chains that strive for uniformity in menu and service. But none has ever surpassed McDonald...