Underground Journal of Initiation

NEW YORK -- In "total-body photography," patients typically strip nude and stand on a platform while a photographer snaps two dozen pictures covering every inch of their skin. Bill Slue pioneered the procedure at New York University Medical Center, hoping it could save lives by letting doctors monitor unusual moles in people who might develop skin cancer. Mr. Slue, a native of Jamaica who never graduated from college, was appointed to the medical-school faculty at NYU and celebrated as an innovator in dermatology. NYU is now struggling to distance itself from the photographer, while contending that his technique is still valid. The hospital fired Mr. Slue in January 2004, accusing him of taking extra photographs of female patients for his personal enjoyment. He denies that. The accusation followed an NYU investigation in which an attractive undercover operative visited Mr. Slue's studio posing as a patient. A 63-year-old former Jehovah's Witnesses minister, Mr. Slue s...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana wants thousands of state and local government workers to send back $10 million in unemployment pay they received while still collecting regular pay after Hurricane Katrina. A state audit found lax control by the state Department of Labor was the main reason the 5,439 ineligible workers were able to collect up to $258 a week, Legislative Auditor Steve Theriot said. Administrative workers with the City of New Orleans received the most money with 2,233 wrongfully collecting $4.3 million. There were 1,638 state workers, many with the state Department of Health and Hospitals, who got $2.7 million. The money was a small portion of the overall $560 million the department pay out in unemployment benefits to public and private workers in the four months after Katrina. continued...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - After years of affirmative action to correct racial inequalities left by decades of apartheid, management of the South African economy remains largely in white hands, a report said Tuesday.