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AIDS It was another bleak year for AIDS, as a U.N. report on the global AIDS epidemic made painfully clear. Among its findings: 40 million people are infected with HIV, 3 million of them children. All told, more than 20 million have died of AIDS since 1981. Progress in the research labs has been slow and not that steady, but it has produced some results. Scientists discovered three proteins--alpha-defensins 1, 2 and 3--that may account for the so-called non-progressors, the 1% or 2% of people who contract HIV but never develop AIDS. Also, the Food...
Whatever the specific roots of the conditions, once those environmental and genetic die are cast, is that it for the disordered personality? The short, bleak answer is often yes--at least as long as PD patients resist acknowledging the problem. Anxiety disorders such as phobias are generally referred to as ego-dystonic illnesses: the sufferer acknowledges the problem and wants to do something about it. Personality disorders are ego syntonic: individuals believe that the drama, self-absorption and other traits that characterize their condition are reasonable responses to the way the world is treating them. That's a hard patient...
...leadership moment," regrets not taking her concerns to a higher authority. To get by, she has cloaked herself in her family and church. "Her faith," says William Vanderbloemen, her pastor at Houston's First Presbyterian, "was sharpened." But so, markedly, was her despair. "There were some very bleak moments throughout when you're just so disappointed with human nature, with the power of greed and the power of denial, trying to rationalize that you've done nothing wrong," she says...
...such a television series did exist, this year’s Christmas episode would be a bleak one for our protagonist. The charges are still pending, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, with grand jury action set for next month. And, of course, there’s no Harvard life in which to find solace, to lose oneself in as the wheels of justice turn. Randy Gomes and Suzanne Pomey, the two Harvard students charged with embezzling funds from the Hasty Pudding last year, at least had that...
...plot is a series of tales told by the warrior Nameless (Jet Li) to the Qin King (Chen Daoming). Any or none of the stories may be true; this is Rashomon with a Mandarin accent. But the moral, or rather the ethic, is as clear as it is bleak: man must make war to secure the peace...