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...deadly blood- borne illnesses like hepatitis B. Basic precautionary measures call for workers exposed to contaminated blood to wear gowns, masks and latex gloves and to discard used syringes in special containers. Medical personnel would like to see continued development of needles that automatically sheathe themselves once they are withdrawn from the skin and flexible scalpels that minimize the chance of accidental cuts. Some operating-room teams have begun to wear protective space-suit-like outfits. Cost: $575 each...
Once Iraq has withdrawn from Kuwait, the U.S. must continue its efforts to arrive at a Palestinian solution. Baker must make a major effort to move the peace process along, or else Iraq will question the U.S. commitment to a settlement and attempt to prove to the world, especially the Arabs, that peaceful negotiations over Palestine are truly an impossibility...
Most Inflammatory Target Marketing The R.J. Reynolds tobacco company developed a menthol-flavored cigarette and distinctive black-and-gold packaging specifically tailored to attract the inner-city black smoker. Civil rights groups and health advocates huffed, but did not puff, and the controversial cigarette was hastily withdrawn...
Toughest Test for Civil Libertarians Comedian Andrew Dice Clay flaunted his street-punk misogyny so outrageously that his concert film was withdrawn by 20th Century Fox and his appearance as host of Saturday Night Live prompted two women performers to walk out. Meanwhile, liberals defended to the death his right to say things they wish he'd just shut up about...
Here's an idea: give the withdrawn Grammy to Arsenio Hall. He started all this. "We were tired of being made fun of by Arsenio Hall," said Rob Pilatus, 25, at a rowdy press conference in Los Angeles last week. Pilatus, one half of Milli Vanilli, was struggling to explain how the duo's yearnings for legitimacy had provoked their German record producer, Frank Farian, into confirming what had long been show-biz rumor: that Pilatus and Fab Morvan, 25, were in fact techno-puppets, fronts for a studio-manufactured sound that sold 10 million copies of the album Girl...