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Caise said he found his actors by "hanging out in places where I thought they would hang out." For example, in addition to the more conventional method of placing an ad in the paper, he made an announcement at a rap competition. The people he found to play the inner-city kids were well able to handle the task, as they had grown up there themselves, Caise said...
...first was Fyodor Kulakov, who as party boss in Stavropol first spotted Gorbachev as having great promise. After Kulakov became Agriculture Secretary for the entire Soviet Union, Gorbachev eventually succeeded him in Stavropol -- and Kulakov apparently made sure his protege became known in Moscow. In 1977 the "Ipatovsky method," a new technique of harvesting grain quickly by using flying squads of combines, was judged a smashing success. The idea was probably Kulakov's, but it was first tried in the district of Ipatovsky, in Stavropol Krai, under Gorbachev's supervision. The young regional politician was accorded the honor...
...that seemed at least to tolerate such instruction as a lesser evil. The hierarchy's 50-member administrative board argued that public education should stress the traditional Christian virtue of abstinence from sex apart from marriage, along with avoidance of intravenous drug use, as the best and morally correct method of containing the AIDS epidemic. But, it acknowledged, in a pluralistic society some people will simply not accept such strictures. Thus, said the bishops, accurate information about prophylactic devices "as a potential means of preventing AIDS" could be included in educational programs. However, they explained, "we are not promoting...
Intrigued by Kligman's early results, the drug's manufacturer, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. of Raritan, N.J., began sponsoring clinical trials around the country. One method used to assess the drug: researchers make molds of facial skin with dental modeling plastic, then scrutinize the impressions with an imaging analyzer of the kind used by NASA to examine the moon's surface. The company claims that results so far have been positive and plans to submit its findings next year to the Food and Drug Administration. Although it is already approved for treating acne, Retin-A cannot be promoted as an anti...
...more sweeping strategy to boost saving would be to shift some of the tax burden from income to consumption. One method might be the imposition of a national sales tax, which would work like state levies. Another model is the value-added tax used in many European countries. The VAT is paid at every point in the production and distribution chain where a product's value has been enhanced. Consumers would pay their share at the retail level. But as sensible as those or other consumption taxes may sound, they are too dicey politically to have much of a chance...