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...multivitamins question boils down to this: Do you need to wait until all the evidence is in before you take them, or are you willing to accept that there's enough evidence that they don't hurt and could help...
...Person of the Year is the one who, for better or for worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year. But when Ayatullah Khomeini was chosen, many readers could not accept the "or worse" provision. Khomeini's fundamentalist Islamic revolution overthrew the Shah of Iran and gripped the nation in a despotic, anti-Western regime. With his blessing, militants held 52 Americans hostage for months. TIME received 5,200 letters--far more than for any other Person of the Year--most of them protesting the selection...
...from a body ravaged by disease. The belt around his waist had six extra holes punched in it. He wore a diaper in case of diarrhea. Lit by a fearsome spotlight, the tiny figure paused for a few seconds, took a deep breath and began. "Care for us and accept us - we are all human beings. We are normal. We have hands. We have feet. We can walk, we can talk, we have needs just like everyone else...
...brand of candor remains rare. But thanks in part to the dying boy's speech, more people have begun to speak about AIDS rather than hide from it. This year the cacophony of South Africans questioning their government's AIDS policies - and President Thabo Mbeki's odd reluctance to accept the link between HIV and AIDS - grew louder. Across the continent groups began demanding cheaper or free antiretroviral drugs. "Nkosi made a lot of adults think, ?Well, if this little kid is open about his status, then surely we can take those bold steps,'" says Nkosi's doctor Ashraf Coovadia...
...mother to claim humanity for millions of his sick countrymen. Johnson was abandoned by his mother and first met his father at her funeral, but before his own death on June 1, he showed more courage than any elected official, laying down a challenge - "care for us and accept us" - that, if ignored, will imperil Africa's future...