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Although some of Angell's concerns are understandable-after all, the Tuskegee experiments were sanctioned-they appear ridiculous when applied to these particular clinical trials. She misleads readers as to the reasons and intentions of these studies. "Research in the Third World looks relatively attractive as it becomes better funded and regulations at home become more restrictive," she writes. She points out a legitimate fear: as guidelines in the United States become more restrictive, more risky research will be carried out in the Third World. But she neglects to mention that the reason these trials are conducted in the developing...
...opportunity to teach creative writing to a group of East European students at Pennsylvania's West Chester University. Their eight-week stay was funded by Soros, whom I'd never heard of. We ought to clone him. Imagine, a business tycoon who spends a third of his day "thinking... about... where the world is going"! This is behavior we normally attribute to poets and philosophers, people we pretend to take seriously but prefer to confine to the ivory towers of a university, where their radical social ideas will pose no threat to our selfish individualism. JENNIFER FISHER BRYANT Glenmoore...
...that's not a given. Unlike the Security Council, the Assembly has a noisy multitude of countries on whom Washington?s glowering has little effect. "In the 1970s, the U.N. was essentially paralyzed by Cold War stalemates," Michaels says. "The Security Council did nothing, and it was the Third World countries who squawked while the U.S. hid." Those days may be coming again...
...TIME Medical Correspondent Christine Gorman reports, the comparison won't wash, "because there is still an open question as to what the effect of AZT in utero is." Not to mention that HIV can also be passed from mother to child by breast-feeding ? common enough in the Third World to render AZT treatment futile. While the researchers' ethics may be in question, the CDC is still far away from Tuskegee...
Drawing on Holocaust studies, film studies, German studies, history and literary criticism, German 160: "Reinventing Germany: Films and Filmmakers, 1945-95" will analyze how recent filmmakers have portrayed and conveyed the Third Reich, World War II and the Holocaust to audiences worldwide...