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...unknown planet, Aliens takes up with Weaver, who has been asleep with her cat in a space capsule for 57 years. Fascinated by her description of the creatures, which gestate inside humans and have acid for blood, several scientists launch a quest to catch some aliens for evaluation...
During its intermittent, yearlong investigation, there were times when the commission seemed to be on a kind of surrealist mystery tour of sexual perversity, peeping at the most recondite forms of sexual behavior known -- though mostly unknown -- to society. The report details testimony about practices involving human excretions, asphyxiation and anilingus, along with even more arcane fetishes, such as collecting toenail clippings and sniffing sweat. The panel heard from a Houston police officer whose vice squad had confiscated and was storing some 27,000 "rubber goods." Many of the so- called victims described the harm that had befallen them after...
This first novel by a previously unknown author has managed to climb quickly onto best-seller lists. Such a feat is infrequent enough to prompt the question why. True, The Good Mother garnered some enthusiastic reviews, and the publisher, evidently sensing a winner, launched a barrage of advertising and publicity. But if this sort of support automatically spelled success, the nation would be crawling with best sellers. Genuine word-of-mouth, pass-along reader enthusiasm cannot be sustained by ads alone. Books that seemingly come out of nowhere to capture wide audiences do so primarily because they offer exactly what...
...samples slip into the blood supply each year, out of a total of 12 million units donated. Since each pint donated can be split among two or three recipients, as many as 360 people could receive AIDS-infected blood each year, though how many will develop the disease is unknown. The main reason for the slipups, explains Chalmers, is that the existing blood- screening test detects antibodies to the AIDS virus rather than the virus itself. Since someone infected with the AIDS virus may take several weeks to develop antibodies, he says, "there is a dangerous window of time" when...
...Minister under former President Ferdinand Marcos, even for conjugal visits. In February, it was Enrile's startling volte-face that helped topple Marcos and bring Aquino to power. Ever since, the former architect of Marcos' martial law, who has never concealed his own presidential ambitions, has remained a great unknown within Aquino's Cabinet. Enrile, 62, still commands the loyalty of the 230,000-man military, and all sides are well aware that what the army giveth, the army can also take away. Shakespeare might have been addressing Aquino when he wrote, "That Power that made you king/ Hath power...