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P.R.I. politicos and other Fox opponents are worried that his dream of a new relationship could wind up with Mexico's giving away all its mineral resources and business potential--including full ownership of big firms--in return for the U.S.'s allowing, say, a few thousand Mexicans to work legally north of the border. Recognizing that some forms of foreign investment are beyond the pale, Fox has vowed that the 1938 nationalization of Mexican oil resources is "untouchable." "If Fox screws up royally, that's when the nationalism will come in," says Manuel Garcia y Griego, director...
...Hugh Hefner, the Socrates of what he called "the Playboy Philosophy," was one of the sillier figures of the 20th century. His philosophy, formulated in Woo Grotto and silk smoking jacket with a thousand Playmates, taught the profound significance and value of his Chicago-based hedonism and the creamy topless lubricities that he published...
...this year, and "Talking to the Dead," a story from March about dance instructor turned medium John Edward. The "best selling" article from before 1990 is "Everyone's Genealogical Mother," a story from 1987 about a scientific report that suggests that an African female living a couple of hundred thousand years ago may have been humanity's single ancestor...
...message that humans are most often inadvertent victims rather than targeted prey. In three photos, the shark appears as the aggressive killer the fearful public has always imagined. You should have chosen photographs that better depicted the misunderstood fish you wrote about. In this case, the pictures negated your thousand words. ADAM WYSE Delaware, Ohio...
Thanks in no small part to Fauci's prodigious efforts, AIDS deaths in the U.S. have dropped from 50,610 in 1995 to 16,273 in 1999. But the situation is still critical. Forty thousand new AIDS cases are reported annually in the U.S., and new findings at NIAID have shown that even after extended treatment with the strongest antiviral drugs, infected patients still harbor reservoirs where the AIDS virus replicates persistently...