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Although she is not yet old enough to vote, Californian Natasha R. Cupp '98 has been following politics at home closely. "I would vote for Brown," she says. "Pete Wilson simply didn't do anything for the state...
...Cupp says she also supports Feinstein, especially for her stands on welfare...
...Pump Boys are the four fellows who ladle out the high octane on Highway 57, somewhere in the South. The Dinettes are the Cupp sisters, Prudie and Rhetta, who run the Double Cupp Diner next door. "Y'all come down to the Double Cupp," they sing, "where you know we'll treat you nice." Beyond that, the plot is as thin as a dime tip. Like many recent musicals-Sophisticated Ladies, for example-Pump Boys is a night of songs, 20 in all. Most have been written by Jim Warm, who also plays the chief gas jockey...
Prisoners today furnish virtually the entire pool of subjects for the initial human testing of all new drugs in the U.S., Author Jessica Mitford reported recently. Not everyone is happy about that fact-least of all Superintendent Hoyt Cupp of the Oregon State Penitentiary. In the Walled Street Bulletin, the prison's newspaper, Cupp argued that the poverty or prisoners as well as the reality of their incarceration meant that it was impossible for them to be truly "free agents" when asked to participate in medical-testing programs. For those reasons, all the Oregon prison's experimentation programs...
...Cupp's unusual action ended the participation of some 200 convicts in various projects, some of which had been going on for 20 years. The research had included allergy experiments in which inmates got various substances injected under their skin to gauge their effect; the pay was $6 per visit to the doctor. More controversial was testing in connection with development of a male contraceptive pill. Volunteers received $10 a month for weekly sperm specimens, plus $25 for periodic biopsies of the scrotal skin. After a year, they were paid a $100 bonus, and underwent mandatory vasectomies because...