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...This year at least, a Saturday night reveler would have had an easier time getting into heaven than into Eliot House with its guest list for visitors. Security stayed tight the day of the regatta--helping explain a mellow mood that was cooled further by the weather--although a crack member of Cambridge's "Alcohol Disposal unit" (unmounted division) said the police did not seize as much booze from students as in the past. Last year, bottles, cans and contraband milk cartons filled two dumpsters...
...said early descriptions of AIDS as "fatal," "mysterious," "out-of-nowhere," and "unknown" influenced the public's perception of AIDS. Later, television focused primarily on gay, middle-class white males for story material or photographed poor Blacks shooting crack in dark alleyways, stereotyping AIDS as a disease of drug abusers and gay men alone...
...water hole, its trunk raised high to catch the first scent of danger. Satisfied that the way is clear, it signals and is joined by a second elephant. In ritual greeting the two behemoths entwine their trunks, flap their enormous ears and clack tusk against tusk, sending the cold crack of ivory across the Ngulia Hills. That same sound is heard 10,000 miles away in Hong Kong and Tokyo, where ivory traders stack tusk upon tusk -- more than 800 tons, scrubbed clean of blood and connective tissue and laundered free of illegality...
...many of Africa's poachers operate with the cold precision of a crack military unit. They are well armed and organized into gangs of up to ten men. Their weapons, often AK-47 assault rifles, can pepper a herd with 30 rounds in less than five seconds. Frequently they are ex-army men. When they run into antipoaching units, they respond as trained soldiers would, withdrawing and firing, then scattering and rendezvousing hours or days later at prearranged sites. In Angola rebels help finance military operations with ivory. Among the larger bands of poachers, some men are designated as cooks...
...enough other young men, women and children to turn a trickle of refugees into a torrent, pouring out of every crack they could find in the crumbling Iron Curtain. The first route, through Hungary, has largely shut down since East German officials cut back on exit permits to that country a month ago. Next, East Germans by the thousands planted themselves in the West German embassy in Prague, as Czechoslovakia was the only country to which they were allowed to travel without an exit permit. Those who could slip into Poland converged on Bonn's compound in Warsaw. And when...