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Technology, according to the dreams of urban planners, is supposed to solve such problems, but in a swollen megalopolis like Mexico City, solutions keep lagging behind the growing needs. Consider, for example, the question of how to get increasing millions of people to their jobs. Seventeen years ago, the government girded Mexico City with the six-lane Periferico, which is now one long series of traffic jams (on a reasonably typical afternoon, a one-mile stretch contained twelve broken-down cars...
Last week's costly extravaganza, swollen with hordes of simultaneous translators, government aides and journalists, managed to affirm Western solidarity, and it certainly did no harm to Ronald Reagan's chances for reelection. But for all its lofty declarations, it made little progress in finding solutions to the pressing problems the world's major industrial nations face...
...when there is a powerful motivation to get well, pain can fade into the background. Dr. Jon Levine, of U.C.S.F., describes a woman whose hands and knees are swollen with arthritis but who continues to manage a San Francisco clothing store and has even run in the city's 7.6-mile "Bay-to-Breakers" road race. "I feel sure that she is experiencing the physiological impulses of pain," says Levine. "When you push her, she'll admit that there are certain things she tends not to do; for instance, she can't lift big bundles of clothing...
...fulfillment of a creative spirit that burns too hot to contain or understand; drugs as recreation, revelation and social challenge, a turn-on for talent, a tip sheet for personal apocalypse. He died, really, of the cumulative effects not only of the cocaine and heroin that had swollen his brain and bloated his heart but of all these bad dreams...
...French team is headed by Dr. Luc Montagnier of the renowned Pasteur Institute. In interviews with the U.S. press, Montagnier described a virus he and his colleagues had found in the blood of patients with the swollen lymph nodes and flu-like symptoms that characterize the early stage of AIDS. Like Gallo, the Pasteur researchers reportedly found signs of the virus in 80% to 90% of blood samples from AIDS patients. Both research groups affirm that the bugs they have found closely resemble the cancer-causing virus discovered by Gallo four years ago. The two groups suspect they have found...