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Finally, whether Lichtman is joking or serious, I feel that questioning the sincerity of those students at Harvard and members of the community who are taking concrete steps to encourage the use of condoms is highly inappropriate. No doubt, many of us know people who have died of AIDS, many of us are sexually active and are concerned with contracting it, many of us are purely concerned with public health. Unless the Surgeon General is also simply interested in "prurient thrills," we should conclude that he is correct when he says that "barring abstinence, the use of a condom...
...billions in a Defense Department cost-overrun story he's working on. But he knows how to shed a calculated tear on-camera during a human-interest interview. In one sense, Tom is the reverse of Bud Fox: he isn't bright, but he's smart -- smart enough to use his looks and his nice, helpful, attractive attitude to get intelligent people to push him toward stardom, so that they connive in the erosion of their ideals. He is the ultimate salesman and, Brooks suggests, the ultimate news product...
Alerted by word of mouth, however, consumers and doctors have not been waiting. "Ladies come in asking for it because their friends are using it," says Tucker. "Or they steal it from their children who are using it for acne." Prescribing Retin-A is perfectly legal. Observes FDA Spokesman Herman Janiger: "If a physician wants to use an approved drug for unapproved purposes, that's what's called 'accepted medical practice.' " Notes Stephen Kurtin, a New York City dermatologist: "It is the single most popular prescription I'm giving...
Doctors generally advise patients to use the medicated cream (cost: $15 to $25 a tube) as often as every day for about six months, then less frequently after that. Side effects, which usually last two to six weeks, include skin irritation, scaling and peeling. Dermatologists caution against overdoing it. One woman, convinced that more is better, began slathering it on six times a day. Says Kurtin: "When she came in after a week, she was a mess...
Jimmy could be very irritating. He borrowed things and didn't return them. He made appointments that he never kept. He could be spiteful, and he made use of anybody who could be useful. But he was also warm and intense and funny, and anyone who gained his friendship valued it highly. That included an Englishwoman who once lent him her typewriter because he had pawned his own. Jimmy did not return it because, he said, he was in the midst of Go Tell It on the Mountain and "had to finish the chapter...