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With about two weeks remaining before the state's general elections, a random sampling of Cambridge voters yesterday indicated strong support for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Michael S. Dukakis...
...more than a tantalizing mystery, more even than random terror. The Tylenol murders had the true Kafkaesque quality of a nightmare become real, of vague dreads taking on form and solidity in cold daylight. Such thoughts gripped Americans last week as poison scares spread around the nation, seemingly promising leads dissolved, and the hunt for the person who had put the cyanide into capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that killed seven people in the Chicago area two weeks ago made little progress...
...ruminations get to you. No, the Tylenol case is not quite like the Son of Sam killings or the Mad Bomber or the Atlanta murders, and not only because these latest deaths are more random. There is something about the will involved, the you involved, plucking the particular little pill box that your hand has settled on, then standing politely in a row, ready to pay for your medicine. The trouble with poison is that you take it yourself, even when the murderer has spiked the gum on the envelope or when a Borgia has switched the wine...
Justice is also preparing to send a questionnaire to a random sampling of 500 women asking about their experiences with UHS obstetric-gynecologic care. The goal "to determine whether the criticisms crisps are anecdotal or pervasive," says Dr Sholem Postel, deputy director of UHS and chair of its internal quality control committee...
...corridors inside are long, green and dimly lit; the walls are bare except for a spray of handwritten signs and arrows and random words scrawled on them, often in several handwritings. One of these appears every few yards: "Polish, Hebrew, Chinese." "Sufism, Hebrew, Polish, Czech." "Polish, Chinese, Hebrew, Tech Writing." "Turkish in 6 Divinity...