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...plea for solid data about the extent of the epidemic conceals a resolve to broaden mandatory testing. Last week prospective immigrants to the $ U.S. joined military personnel, blood donors and other groups now required to submit to AIDS testing. The commission tabled discussion on AIDS education until February in spite of widespread agreement among health professionals that educational programs are the most effective way to combat the disease. The panel's recommendations will have to strike a balance between acceptable government-sponsored initiatives and what it has called "personal responsibility." Watkins and his team have made a credible beginning...
...Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle (Workshop of Potential Literature). The authors and scientists who constituted this informal group had a common goal: the discovery of new or fiendishly difficult and complex ways of arranging words in sequence. When it came to setting Procrustean rules and then writing freely in spite of them, none of the OuLiPo circle was more inventive and whimsical than Perec. He composed a full-length novel, La Disparition, without once using the letter e. He devised a 5,000-letter statement that read the same backward and forward. Its subject: palindromes. And four years before he died...
...hazy. Last week domestic automakers reported a brisk 10.8% increase in passenger-vehicle sales during the last ten days of October, compared with the same period last year. Those customers, however, may be people who had already intended to buy a car * and went ahead with those plans in spite of Black Monday. Many car dealers now say business is slowing by as much as 30%. Major retailers, who released October sales figures last week, mostly say business has proceeded at the same sluggish pace they were experiencing before the crash. Sears, for example, reported that October sales were...
...production of antibodies, the cellular building blocks of the immune system. He likens the process to rearranging the boxcars on a freight train. "The dogma was that the order of the genes in any one person is immutable," he says. "The freight train never shifts its cars around." In spite of prevailing theory, Tonegawa found that the "cars" did indeed rearrange themselves in a multitude of different configurations to make the antibodies that fight off diseases. His work has led to discoveries of how some cancers form and could help in understanding such immune disorders as AIDS or rheumatoid arthritis...
...move on the roads at night; it was the hour when only the zombies worked, or else the Tonton Macoutes." That infamous paramilitary force of Dr. Francois (Papa Doc") Duvalier and his son Baby Doc was disbanded by decree after Jean-Claude fell from power last year, but in spite of repeated promises, it was never disarmed. The provisional government has prosecuted only a few of the most notorious thugs. "It isn't easy to get rid of something as basic as the Macoutes," says Aubelin Jolicoeur, a Haitian journalist and former gossip columnist. The recent rampages have a signature...