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...violent rebellion that followed the liberation of the Belgian Congo. A seemingly healthy man walked into a hospital clinic to give blood for a Western-backed study of blood diseases. He walked away and was never heard from again. Doctors analyzed his sample, froze it in a test tube and forgot about it. A quarter-century later, in the mid-1980s, researchers studying the growing AIDS epidemic took a second look at the blood and discovered that it contained HIV, the virus that causes AIDS...
Against the nurses' orders I bring her vanilla ice cream from time to time in a small cardboard cup, and I feed her with a flat wooden spoon. She takes her regular food through a tube in her stomach, so the taste of the sweet, cold substance makes her salivate and smile. She will exclaim, "This is delicious!" after every taste, with exactly the same intonation, as if she feared that if she used any other formula to express her appreciation, I would not reward her with another spoonful...
...Weather Channel: "Painted Faces" Sure, the 24-hr. channel could tout its forecasts. But this inspired campaign wants you to know that "if hell freezes over, you'll hear it here first." In a weather-themed bar, two rabid tube watchers breathlessly await the weekend outlook. The upshot is as clear as a blue sky: "Weather fans, you're not alone...
...jerky fanciers are mostly blue-collar types, some of whom buy tube-shaped sausages 14 in. long and weighing half a pound. But in Japan the yuppies who regard jerky as a prestige snack prefer comparatively dainty 6-in. pieces. "The healthy Midwestern appetite doesn't apply there," says Jay Link. Russians are just beginning to encounter beef jerky. Link's distributors in Russia take care to place the tubes on store racks next to potato chips and small cakes so that shoppers will know they are snack food. Link products sell for 10% to 15% more than competing snacks...
...freezing may actually ease one ethical dilemma. When clinics freeze test-tube embryos for later use, what happens if that use never takes place? If the parents divorce or die, who gets custody of the embryos? Courts have addressed both these thorny situations in specific cases, but no nationwide policy exists...