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...Americans afflicted with genital herpes, the worst aspect of the sexually transmitted infection is that the symptoms keep coming back. "Herpes is forever," as one wag put it. The average sufferer endures five to eight bouts a year of painful, itchy blisters; many have outbreaks every month. Now, for the first time, there is hope for those so afflicted. According to two studies reported in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, daily doses of a new, capsule form of the drug acyclovir can prevent recurrences in many patients...
...response to all this from Washington has been low-key and reassuring. While the Soviets wring their hands, pound their fists and wag their fingers, officials of the Reagan Administration shake their heads wearily but indulgently. Soviet-American relations are not all that bad, they say. Nor, the Administration implies, should they be all that good. The two nations are, after all, fundamentally and irreconcilably at odds over how their own societies-and indeed the planet itself-should be run. Détente was, in that sense, unnatural...
...father of three. "Rather than part with her, we will emigrate and I will quit politics." Despite his dogged stand, the Finance Minister is on fairly safe ground: he may be in the doghouse, but as a member of parliament he cannot be jailed. Before things become irretrieverable, one wag suggests, why not transfer Gudmundsson to Iceland's United Nations delegation in New York? New Yorkers, after all, are not only accustomed to putting on the dog, but putting up with it as well...
...questioner seems more assured. The viewer gets so used to candidates truckling to self-important television types that the three-hour Democratic debate in New Hampshire provided two refreshing exceptions. Interviewer Phil Donahue, a gregarious veteran of morning TV talk shows, was cautioned by Walter Mondale not to wag his finger at him, while the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who knows a thing about crowd playing too, advised the bullying Donahue to slow down his act. This was more of a knockabout debate than the League of Women Voters' solemn civic lessons. Never mind that it was more demeaning...
...impossible to tell just how bananas Suder is supposed to be going; he is the only spokesman for his misadventures and he says he feels better and better. But along the way, Everett's novel develops a severe case of enforced sit-com wackiness. Jokes wag the tale; characters seem willing to do anything for a laugh track. -By Paul Gray