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Canines, Felines, and Respect |
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The respect we accord to dogs is unrelated to their size, but with cats, our respect is directly correlated to how big they are. |
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Cat Fanatics |
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How to distinguish a true cat fanatic from a mere cat lover. |
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Catma |
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If there's "dogma" and "dogmatics", surely there must be "catma" and "catmatics"... |
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Cavaliers and Roundheads in HIV Prevention |
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A metaphor for the controversy between Harm Reduction and Abstinence. |
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Cheer Up |
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A dozen irreverent recommendations for coping with the second Bush administration. |
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Civilization Follows the Vine |
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The Romans believed that planting a vineyard was the first of many stages to civilizing a new frontier of their world. Here's a rendition of those stages, nine in all. |
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Climbing Beacon Hill |
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Renovation recapitulates rising: when you renovate a house, you symbolically reexperience your own upward social mobility. |
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Cocaine and Corn Syrup |
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A hundred years ago, the Feds made the Coca-Cola company remove a harmful substance- cocaine- from their drinks. Will the Feds now do the same for an even more harmful substance? |
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Cock Size in Gay Escorts Ads |
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A statistical examination of how the claims of "escorts" may jibe with reality. |
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Cold Contract |
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I'm a frequent sufferer of the common cold. I get lots of advice from well-meaning people about preventions or cures. "Cold Contract" asks them to put their money where their mouth is, or shut up. |
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Combination Therapy: Too Costly, Too Little, and Too Late |
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"Cocktail therapy" is welcome, but what about the worldwide majority of HIV+ people who can't afford it? Will it divert energies from education and prevention? And how much difference will it ultimately make? |
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A Comparison of Seven Dangerous Environments |
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An epidemiologist's cool-headed look at several modern perils which have seen much hot-headedness and innumeracy. |
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Consequences of Partial Compliance With Safer HIV Practices |
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A surprising finding: reducing your risky practices by two-thirds is much more than twice as good as reducing them by one-third. |
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Consuming Passions |
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Eight psychoactive substances- four of them legal and four illegal- dominate the American scene. Here's a summary of what they cost, what damage they do, and what they'd look like on your kitchen table. |
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Cost Effectiveness of HIV Prevention |
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In San Francisco, it now costs ten or a hundred times as much to avoid each new HIV infection as it did a decade ago. Here's why... |
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Country Pleasures |
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Here are all the ways two very different sorts of people— "Country Music" fold and "Whole Foods" aficionados— share a love of rural aAmerica. |
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Crack Abuse Study |
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Results of research we conducted at the Haight-Ashbury Clinic in 1991-92. |
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Crack Abuse: What Is to be Done? |
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A distillation of the best ideas of a staff that worked on the subject for two years. |
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The Cultural Evolution of AIDS Agencies |
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This essay suggests that AIDS agencies have a life cycle of birth, growth, maturity, and decay, just like most institutions... |
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The Cultural Evolution of Drug Treatment Programs |
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Drug programs, like societies, evolve: from Heroic origins, through the Classical and Imperial epochs, finally ending in Decadence. |
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