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...Ethical Treatment of Animals assailed an AIDS treatment that involved taking immune cells from a baboon and then killing it for autopsy. Since baboons don't seem to get AIDS, doctors at San Francisco General Hospital had hoped that grafting the animal's cells into Jeff Getty, 38, of Oakland, California, would help him fight the disease. "We believe," a spokeswoman for PETA said at the time, that Getty is "the victim of an exploitative medical industry that has little concern for the beings, both human and animal, in this experiment...
...apparent contradiction between maximizing profits and treating employees well. It can help make companies more productive and efficient at the same time that it provides employees with a substantial benefit and a way to share in this productivity. EDWARD J. CARBERRY Director of Communications National Center for Employee Ownership Oakland, California...
Devastated residents struggled to explain how children so young could commit so horrifying an act. Their area of Richmond, an industrial city outside of Oakland, is poor and tough but not violence-ridden. "It's a predominantly quiet street," Ophelia Stringer told the Mercury News. "It's not all shooting and drugs. It bothers us that all people say we're in gangs and have dysfunctional families. It's not true. We're normal people." Agreed police sergeant Mike Walter: "This is not the sort of neighborhood where we've had this sort of thing before; there have been...
...pitcher Rene Arocha became the first Cuban national-team member to defect, and he soon established himself with the St. Louis Cardinals. There have been a few other defectors--Oakland Athletics pitcher Ariel Prieto and New York Mets shortstop Rey Ordonez--whom the Cubans tried to dismiss as second-rank malcontents. But when Fernandez got into Cubas' van last July, they could no longer make that claim. He was, after all, 22-0 in international competition, with a 1.62 era. And he was not considered a security risk...
...other students, the news of the snowfall record indicates that the weather can only improve. As firstyear student Zachary W. Norris, from Oakland, Calif., put it, "I figure if this is a record, maybe my next three years here will be a little bit better...