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...remnants of Naked Lunch. Its main character, Bill Lee (Peter Weller), is an exterminator who sees roaches everywhere -- not least because his wife Joan (Judy Davis) has been stealing the bug powder he needs for his job; she cuts the stuff with baby laxative and injects it into her breast. "It's a Kafka high," she says. "You feel like a bug." In his daymares, Bill is visited by beetles -- big ugly things, chatting away through purulent orifices -- that send him on a spy mission into the Tangier of his delirium. Typewriters turn into bugs, and so do the humans...
Wriede, who has already qualified for the Olympic trials in the 200 breast-stroke, broke the meet, pool and team records with her 2:15.39 time in the same event. More importantly the time was fast enough to qualify her for the NCAA meet in March. There are distinct advantages to making the cut this early in the season, as the necessary time dropped nearly two seconds off of last year's 2:18.00, narrowing the number of qualifiers...
MEDICINE The perils of breast implants and being short...
...three decades that breast implants have been on the market, the FDA has never before considered their safety. It did not have the authority to do so until 1976, and the agency took until 1988 to put the implants on its list of medical devices requiring the strictest scrutiny. The companies had until last July to document the implants' safety, but could not satisfy the FDA's experts...
However, 2 million women are using the devices, mostly for cosmetic purposes but also for breast reconstruction after surgery. Implants can deteriorate or spring leaks, and a manufacturing ban could leave these women no way to get a replacement. That was undoubtedly a major factor behind the panel's vote. The companies will still have to prove their products' safety, but without clear proof that the implants are unsafe, they will stay available to women who want them...