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WALTER MATTHAU, who died of a heart attack last week at 79, made moviegoers laugh at their own venality--make that humanity. A deft character actor with star quality, he was the ideal mouthpiece for the wisecracks of Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys) and Billy Wilder (The Fortune Cookie). But he didn't need good writing to be funny. Born Walter Matuchanskayasky, he had a posture designed by Rube Goldberg and a lovely snarl of a voice that cut like a foreclosure notice. That got him small, dark roles (he beat up Elvis Presley in King Creole...
...driving could be lowering their sperm count. Fertility experts in Toulouse, France, recently found that the temperature of the scrotum, which is normally 94[degrees]F when a man is standing, can nearly match his body temperature of 98.6[degrees]F after just two hours behind the wheel. Sperm die after a few days at normal body temperature. To blame are the warm interiors of most cars and the way most men press their thighs together when driving. Men can try to cool themselves with air-circulating beaded car seats, air conditioning and nonrestrictive clothing, such as boxer shorts...
...said it was too expensive. My dad doesn't mention it much anymore. It's unfortunate, but I think he's given up hope and started to think mostly about his retirement. I've heard it said that public-school systems are where all good ideas go to die. That's not always true. In fact, some are born in public school and die there...
South African president Thabo Mbeki, hosting the 13th International AIDS Conference, is fiddling while his country dies, say a growing number of AIDS scientists and activists. During the five days of the conference alone, 9,000 South Africans will be infected with HIV; 2,600 will see their HIV infection progress to full-blown AIDS; and a further 1,800 South Africans will die of the disease. Yet, in his keynote speech to the conferenceon Sunday, Mbeki again refused, to the consternation of the vast majority of the AIDS-treatment community, to unambiguously stress HIV infection as the cause...
...Mbeki is certainly on solid ground in stressing that economic factors determine who will survive and who will die of AIDS. Drug treatments that have successfully slowed the onset of AIDS in HIV-positive people in the West would, even at discounted prices, cost at least $1,000 per patient every year, on a continent where average annual incomes are well below $400 and 25 million people are believed to be infected. Indeed, pharmaceutical corporations will take even more heat than Mbeki has from the activists and scientists involved in the conference, many of whom urge dispensing with profit motives...