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...neighborhood around CB's, the old Lower East Side of New York, rents were cheap. Lofts could go for one or two hundred bucks, apartments for less. The cheap rents and the dope (which was everywhere, three dollars a bag, with 50 or 60 people lined up on 2nd St. and Avenue B waiting for the dope store to open every morning) attracted the fringe players, the ones who couldn't handle the tedium in Queens or New Jersey or suburban anywhere. From this crowd of disaffected youth emerged our players, and the stage was CBGB...
...relationship with the Mainland. Megastars like Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-Fat have abandoned ship and washed ashore in America, leaving a smaller pool of talent to cope with an ever-growing crisis. Hollywood movies have overtaken local product at the box office, as Chinese audiences tired of cheap, Cantonese-language knock-offs now devote their loyalty and their ticket dollars to the slicker Western productions...
...notably the stripping of pop to its rawest elements: guitars, drums and four chords. And for all that we here at the Arts section salute him. Check out “I Wanna Be Sedated” or “Blitzkrieg Bop” —fast, cheap and out of control, these are songs that clock in and out in under three minutes, songs that should’ve been hit singles for a band that at its heart loved pop. Fled is that music—do I wake or do I sleep...
...their court case against South Africa over AIDS drugs, the giant pharmaceutical corporations had lost the battle in the court of public opinion. And that made it counterproductive to continue the legal fight to stop the impoverished African country most severely affected by the pandemic from importing or manufacturing cheap copies of AIDS treatments. Legal representatives of 39 international pharmaceutical manufacturers acknowledged as much Thursday, when they ran up the white flag in a Pretoria courtroom, withdrawing their suit challenging South African legislation that authorizes the government to begin importing generic AIDS-treatment drugs...
...proactive course of taking all means necessary to address the crisis [MEDICINE, March 19]. American-based pharmaceutical giants have not upheld the fine tradition of scientists like Alexander Fleming and Marie Curie, who had no greed. The onus rests on African nations to import or, better yet, produce cheap generic AIDS drugs. LULUFA KUNDUL VONGTAU Kaduna, Nigeria...