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...agency acted more swiftly to address another threat to safety. Last week, just six days after a Northwest crew flying from Fargo, N. Dak., to Minneapolis was found to have been intoxicated on the job (though without incident), the FAA ordered its inspectors to notify airlines whenever a crew member is suspected of using drugs or alcohol before a flight. The directive also gave inspectors more latitude to ground flights in such cases. As for the three members of the Northwest crew, the FAA revoked their licenses...
Geffen had considered a sale to Time Warner, the current distributor of Geffen Records, or Britain's Thorn EMI. Though MCA paid a premium for Geffen's Top 40 talent, the company gains needed clout in the booming record business -- adding pop-rock power to its strong roster of black and country artists. At least in the music business no one is talking about "labels for less...
AIDS activists have been vocal in urging the Food and Drug Administration to relax its standards and authorize for general use several experimental drugs that appear to help fight the disease. Even though many medical experts worry about the dangers of releasing relatively untested drugs to a broader population, the FDA made a controversial decision last year to allow wide distribution of certain drugs that are still in the testing phase. Among the first was DDI, or dideoxyinosine, an unproven medicine dubbed by its enthusiasts "AZT without tears." The reference is to the most commonly used anti-AIDS drug, which...
...valid. "You can't talk about something genetically wrong with the German people," says Moshe Zimmerman, professor of German history at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. "All the characteristics attributed to Germans may be found in Swiss, Americans and others." Defining national character is risky business and leads to stereotyping; though countries do have observable characteristics, values and attitudes, they are acquired by growing up and being educated in a specific culture...
...Soviet Union is categorically opposed, demanding neutrality as a condition for unity. West German leaders have proposed that the new state remain in NATO, though Western troops and bases could be kept out of what is now East Germany. "We cannot agree to that," says President Mikhail Gorbachev. "It is absolutely out of the question." The U.S.S.R. has made German neutrality an article of faith ever since Stalin's days, even though Soviet fears might be better calmed by a Germany answerable to a larger military command than standing...