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...full-moon Friday night, and Jennifer, 25, a hard-core loker (smoker of methamphetamine, known as crank) has been wide awake around the clock for almost four days. She isn't yet seeing plastic people, shadow men or transparent spiders--just three of the fabled hallucinations of the Billings, Mont., crank scene, a hyperstimulated subculture sickeningly rich in slang and folklore. But she is feeling pangs of remorse about her three-year-old. On Monday, when she left her parents' house, where she has been living since dropping out of college, she promised the daughter she calls "my angel" that...
...great gifts for new chums (or for yourself), explore the area's numerous music stores. Tower Records and HMV, the two music megastores of Harvard square, offer frequent bargains and a wide selection. In Your Ear, located on Mt. Auburn St., is an elusive haven for used music at affordable prices. And if you have a VCR, don't forget Video-Pros in The Garage--great selection, convenient location and reasonable rates...
Another excellent day-trip is one of the harbor cruises. A wide variety of inner and outer harbor tours are available...
...love-turn-killers-on-the-road movie, which inspired a thousand imitators. The unheralded gem of American cinema. Raging Bull (1980). The finest sports movie ever made, with grit courtesy of Marty. Citizen Kane (1941). Orson Welles' masterwork remains the ur-text of film schools worldwide because it blew wide open the envelope of cinematic possiblity. Mean Streets (1973). The gritty realism of Scorsese's breakthrough movie began the stylish exploration of the low-rent wiseguy that he completed in "Goodfellas." The Manchurian Candidate (1962). The finest American political film ever goes deep and noir into the fear and loathing...
Still, something may be better than nothing, and last week the Food and Drug Administration gave the go-ahead to test a less-than-perfect AIDS vaccine--the first approved for wide-scale human trials. The new vaccine, AIDSVAX, developed by a company based in San Francisco called VaxGen, contains snippets of two strains of HIV yet has proved safe. It will be tested on healthy but high-risk subjects--5,000 North Americans and then, if Thailand approves, 2,500 Thais. The trials will take at least four years to complete...