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...South Korea's defense after North Korea attacked. Six of those countries were represented in our group. On our return to the peninsula in late June, we were given a lavish welcome--almost too lavish, considering that we had been only reporting, not fighting. Yet 18 correspondents did die in the war, and seeing their names memorialized in bronze evoked thoughts of the luck that had saved us from having our own names listed there too--a ride not taken in a jeep that hit a mine, killing two correspondents; the shuttle back from Japan not boarded that went down...
...metaphor for hopelessness, it's hard to equal the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. Twenty-four million of the area's people are HIV-positive--70% of the world's infected population. Thirteen million Africans have already died of AIDS, and 10 million more are expected to die within five years. In South Africa, 1 in 5 adults is infected; in Botswana the rate of infection is 1 in 3; in Zimbabwe it is 1 in 4. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, by 2003, AIDS-related deaths will slow population growth in some of these nations to zero...
...browser company, was sold last year to America Online. The Barksdales had long given to their church, their children's schools and the United Way. But when they hit it big, they felt it was time to give big too. "If there is any money left when we die, it will be because we miscalculated," says Jim. He and Sally considered their favorite causes and decided that "if we spread it all out, it would greatly decrease the chances that we would do something we could point to and say we made a difference...
...Clinton White House is fond of win-win scenarios, in which there's a happy confluence between corporations making a profit and doing the right thing. But the brutal reality is there's no good-for-business solution to the AIDS crisis in Africa. Some 10 million Africans will die of AIDS in the next five years alone if it's left to the market to determine their fate, because there's simply no profit to be made in saving them. And that reality will force some tough choices not on the pharmaceutical industry, but on government...
...thought we all understood that by now. Empires die of ossification, bureaucracy, sclerosis of the mind and expired assumptions. We have recent examples...