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...Longhair." No matter if you don't know about the good professor (the past master of R. and B. keyboard, Crescent City style) or aren't sure about the good doctor either (one of Longhair's foremost disciples, the winner of a 1990 Grammy Award for a duo jazz vocal and a kind of living archive of musical history). Just sit back and watch Dr. John work his way through the likes of C.C. Rider and Pine Top Boogie. You may not be able to play the tunes when the videotape's over -- it takes a pretty advanced pianist even...
AIDS activists have been vocal in urging the Food and Drug Administration to relax its standards and authorize for general use several experimental drugs that appear to help fight the disease. Even though many medical experts worry about the dangers of releasing relatively untested drugs to a broader population, the FDA made a controversial decision last year to allow wide distribution of certain drugs that are still in the testing phase. Among the first was DDI, or dideoxyinosine, an unproven medicine dubbed by its enthusiasts "AZT without tears." The reference is to the most commonly used anti-AIDS drug, which...
...nationalist upsurge in other parts of the Soviet Union has triggered a backlash in Russia, by far the largest and most populous of the country's republics. Tired of the slogan OCCUPIERS, GO HOME scrawled on walls from Vilnius to Baku, an increasingly vocal minority of ethnic Russians are demanding more respect and a better deal for their maligned republic. If anyone has suffered from 72 years of Communist rule, they say, it has been the Russians. They witnessed the desecration of their national shrines, the extermination of their brightest talents, and the economic and ecological rape of their resource...
...hindsight, Koch still defends his outspokenstyle as mayor. The people of New York, he says,demand that a mayor take a vocal stand on almostevery issue, even foreign policy matters...
...irksome so far has been Kohl's refusal to state unambiguously that a united Germany would lay no claim to land east of the Oder-Neisse line, which constitutes the present border between East Germany and Poland. When challenged, Kohl hides behind legalisms. His motives, however, are political: a vocal minority of the descendants of 13 million Germans who fled those territories after 1945 still lays claim to lands that are now part of Poland and the Soviet Union. Kohl needs their vote in West Germany's December election...