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...aren't they sick? Clinicians and researchers have poked, prodded, questioned and bled their healthy human guinea pigs four to six times a year every year in search of any relevant information. Last month the NIH held its first scientific conference to evaluate the mounting evidence. So far, success in fighting HIV does not appear to be closely linked to good diets, the lack of drug use or stress or the absence of other sexually transmitted diseases. Finding no simple patterns, researchers are zeroing in on the men's individual immune responses, even searching through their genetic makeups...
...knows for sure. Without question, urbanization has produced miseries so ghastly that they are difficult to comprehend. In Cairo, children who elsewhere might be in kindergarten can be found digging through clots of ox dung, looking for undigested kernels of corn to eat. Young, homeless thieves in Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby may not know their last names or the names of the villages where they were born. In the inner cities of America, newspapers regularly report on newborn babies dropped into garbage bins by drug-addicted mothers...
...Kantt said that she and her lover did not want to wait to be "guinea pigs." "We weren't comfortable with that, with having our community fizzle out," she said...
...become harder] to fathom how~~ truth and justice could have anything like the same meaning the world over--say to a New Guinea headhunter and a computer programmer in Silicon Valley or to militant enemy groups in the Middle East," Bok said...
...Randolph says, the work level became"manic." And although her company was lucrative,the hotel brochures she produced were "marketdriven, and not very creative." She is quick topraise the benefits of corporate design, but"having studied how design can interact withculture in Papua, New Guinea," says Randolph, "Iwas quickly disillusioned with the corporateworld...