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Though such numbers may seem small, proponents claim that contact tracing will help contain the spread of the disease, primarily among heterosexuals and in communities where it is not already prevalent. Those with AIDS, they say, have a moral duty to warn those they have put at risk. Critics of mandatory tracing charge that it may feed panic and hysteria. They stress that, unlike syphilis or gonorrhea, AIDS is so far incurable. Indeed, says Dr. Kevin Cahill, a member of New York City's board of health, some people who were told that they had been exposed to the virus...
Then came the bills. One youngster was so hooked on Scoopline that he ran up $7,000 worth of charges in two months. Mountain Bell last month suspended the service in Utah until Ultraphone agreed to warn all callers about the fees as they rang on. Two weeks ago Mountain Bell canceled Scoopline in Albuquerque. Ultraphone has offered to provide a 24-hour adult monitor to police the chatter, a solution that seems to be working in Utah. Insists Betsy Superfon, vice president of Ultraphone: "Scoopline is a great way for people to meet new friends." But for youngsters...
MacDonald's colleagues in the Peking press corps claimed that his only offense was his detailed reporting of recent student demonstrations. They speculate that the Chinese moved against MacDonald to warn students and other Chinese away from the Western media -- and to put foreign journalists on notice that bad news out of China could soon mean no news...
...dust from mineral fibers, but argue that USG is mainly interested in fending off workers' future liability suits. USG's strategy could spread to other lung- threatening industries -- chemicals and rubber, for example -- in which companies are beginning to realize that they need to do everything they can to warn their workers of health risks if they are to avoid choking legal problems...
Sloppy service could become more than just a domestic annoyance. Economists have begun to warn that slipping standards could cost the U.S. its international competitive standing in services and thus worsen the country's trade problems. Japanese banks, for example, have already made inroads into the U.S. market. In the November-December issue of the Harvard Business Review, Professor James Quinn and Researcher Christopher Gagnon of Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business contend that many U.S. service businesses have developed the same shortsighted habits and inattention to quality that American manufacturers have been guilty of -- with disastrous results. "While...