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Worst Thing to Try at Home When two doctors working at Atlanta Hospital came up with a radical AIDS treatment -- heating up the patient's blood -- they let CNN know about it after just one trial. The gullible network broadcast live reports of the second attempt at treatment, giving free and favorable publicity to a farfetched, unproven medical procedure...
Smallest Advertisement Using a powerful microscope, IBM researchers lined up individual xenon atoms to spell out the company's initials. That clever display of know-how got magnified pictures of the minuscule logo into newspapers all over the world -- for free...
Best Reason to Overhaul the Stereo System -- Again The long-awaited digital audio tape recorder has finally arrived in U.S. stores. Will DAT -- which makes crisp, noise-free tapes -- replace CDs? Will erasable CDs do the same to DAT? Whatever happens, audio stores will always tell people their stereos are just not good enough...
...earnestness was much in evidence in 1990, with the return of the spirit of do-goodism. The environment became the last best cause, the ultimate guilt- free issue. In 1990 it seemed that everything had to be either biodegradable or cholesterol free. The return, once again, of '60s fashions on Seventh Avenue and '60s rhetoric on college campuses betokened a revival of activism...
...officials were less than jubilant. Under the terms of the decree, drug dealers are immune from extradition to the U.S. and not required to confess all their crimes. Depending on the Colombian courts, Ochoa could wind up serving less than 20 months in jail and possibly even go free...