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...began with simple arithmetic. German health officials tracing some unexplained cases of HIV infection examined the records of a small blood- supply company in Koblenz last month and noticed a startling discrepancy. UB Plasma had sold 7,000 units of blood since 1992 but had purchased only 2,500 kits to screen for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The conclusion: either the firm had failed to test thousands of units, or it had "pooled" units from multiple donors before conducting the tests, an illegal practice that reduces the chances of detecting HIV contamination...
...dining hall workers, played tour guide to Chavez and posed with him whenever he could. The two are much alike in outlook, if not in stature. Bozzotto is very political, very controversial, very visible, and he generally gets good contracts; hence his popularity among jthe workforce was reform candidate ub co-union, he believes in solidarity media love...
...critics have argued that what the burst of creativity achieved was instant decadence. They see in the primitive purity of Ub Iwerks, Disney's first great collaborator and the man who designed the immortal Mouse, a whirlwind comic force, simple and unsentimental, that for high, mean spirits was never matched. It is true that in Iwerks' rubbery stick figures and bare backgrounds there was an elemental anarchy that is still delightful. But one has only to look at Norm Ferguson's roughs for Playful Pluto, in which he caused his pup to be caught in flypaper...
...several of the same newspapers as Hemingway, but went West to Hollywood rather than East to Spain. After more failures with small Vaudeville routines, Disney began to produce cartoons and eventually came up with his first star, Mickey Mouse, designed not by Disney, but by his head cartoonist, Ub Iwerks. The development of more sophisticated cameras allowed Disney to create full length animated features: Fantasia, the Sill Symphonies, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which all had their roots in the primitive silent animation which Disney had seen when younger. There is no amazing story surrounding the creation of Mickey...
Toothbrush Buffs. "Most of the guys who build these jobs are members of ub of some kind," says Pro Designer George Barris, who tours the circuit as part of a Ford team that exhibits its "dream" cars. "They're not teen-agers-they're mostly guys 20 to 30 years old-some own service stations, some are shipping clerks, some do body and fender repairs, some are hairdressers. Out in California, where I come from, a lot of the car buffs have all-chrome undercarriages At a show, they'll be underneath the car with a toothbrush...