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...crisis-hardened Venezuelans, the bland government announcement last month was a sure sign that something unpleasant was about to happen. ``At the moment, the government is not examining the nationalization of these institutions,'' declared Deputy Finance Minister Luis Xavier Grisanti, referring to three troubled banks that the authorities were trying to nurse back to health. Sure enough, two weeks ago, the banks--Banco Italo-Venezolano, Banco Profesional and Banco Principal--were declared insolvent, and the government took them over, assuming $330 million in bad debt...
...think it's probably a feeling when you're having a new course, especially during shopping period, that you want people to know it exists," said Dr. Jonathan M. Mann '67, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights...
...were stunned," says Dr. Albert Stunkard, a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania and a leading expert on what makes people put on pounds. "It runs counter to what we as a nation seem to be doing." In a sharply worded JAMA editorial, Dr. F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer of New York City's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital sounded the medical alarm, pointing out that the extra baggage is not just unsightly but unhealthy as well. Pi-Sunyer says the plumping of America will put millions of people at an increased risk for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, gout, arthritis...
...deadly, soporific rhythm of their lives is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of a drifter named Val Xavier (Aaron Caughey). The young musician conjures up the spirits of a seemingly irretrievable past full of terrifying secrets. His every movement is "suggestive," in Lady's words, and his raw sensuality proves irresistible to her. In Williams' world, acts of love are both sacred and shameful. And as repressed sexual desire brings Val and Lady together, the threads of the family's ignominious past are slowly unraveled...