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...through which prevention, treatment and containment programs are administered. The reasons for the rapid rise in HIV cases are as many as the developing countries affected. Among the most important are an inability to recognize the extent of the problem accurately and early, difficulties in devising effective programs to combat AIDS, and a failure to implement programs that have already been developed and even funded...
...triennial Convocation (alumni reunion). In fact, we had him solo at the Saturday dinner precisely because he was probably the most controversial of our speakers, and it seemed that the ratio of one Kissinger to 200-plus press people might give the press a fighting chance in combat with one of their long-time adversaries. Actually, we "honor" nobody by asking them to talk to Niemans; we merely bet that they may have interesting things to say (and we don't always win that...
...Cops in Shops," which operates in 38 states, is coordinated nationally by the Century Council, a non-profit organization funded by alcohol distillers to combat alcohol abuse, said Carolyn W. Gasper, public relations manager for the council...
...getting permission to board and rousting out a groggy Bahraini official in the middle of the night to obtain a visa. Waller's efforts result in a rare glimpse of the intricate workings of both the aircraft carrier and the mind of an F/A-18 Hornet jet pilot poised for combat...
Combining a crusty overview with extensive oral histories, Citizen Soldiers follows combat units and individual battle-numb troopers from the invasion of Normandy to the Allied victory in Berlin. Not many starters finished. The period from June 7, 1944, to May 7, 1945, is saturated in blood, sometimes frozen solid. What was called the Crusade in Europe is in large part a story of questionable judgments, dumb luck, trial and error (the easiest way to dig a foxhole in icebound terrain is to start with a hand grenade; the main lesson learned in street fighting, says one survivor...