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...tribe of gullible black Africans. (But my, can they dance!) Every Third World racial cliche is put into the service of derring-do recycled by Director Lewis Teague from Indiana Jones discards. With their cheery imperialist swagger, Douglas and Turner are emissaries of Hollywood's latest foreign policy: Pox Americana...
Similarly, the present-day attitude toward disease has been tempered by modern medicine. Many of the ogres of the past, including small pox, polio, and tuberculosis, have been tamed or eliminated. With the advent of microsurgery, even chainsaws and lawnmowers have lost their element of danger. Death has been driven back to the frontier of old age, and so become distant and less real...
...speech to an audience of 300 in the Yenching Auditorium, Perez de Cuellar spoke of such past U.N. achievements as small-pox control, reductions in worldwide illiteracy and malnutrition, and actions to combat worldwide pollution, desertification, and overpopulation...
Like X rays, UV radiation can alter cell DNA, producing the mutations associated with cancer. "Both UVA and UVB are carcinogenic," says Harvard Photobiologist Madhu Pathak. UV also appears to suppress the body's immune system. This may explain why certain viral infections, such as chicken pox and fever blisters, become more severe in the sun. And since the immune system is believed to play a role in preventing tumor growth, its suppression "may also be an aggravating factor in the development of skin cancer," says Dr. Margaret Kripke of the National Cancer Institute...
This perplexing persistence is characteristic of all five members of the human herpes family. After herpes simplex 1 and 2, the best known is the varicella-zoster virus, the cause of chicken pox, the nation's third most common ailment. Three-quarters of the U.S. population gets chicken pox by age 15. Most are never bothered by the virus again, though it will linger in their nervous systems for the rest of their lives. Some will not be so lucky. They will be victims of shingles, a painful, blistering rash that is triggered in adults when, for reasons unknown...