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...WIRE SEASON 3 DAVID SIMON IS the Balzac of Baltimore. Each season the writer-creator's sprawling HBO crime drama takes on a different social issue in the inner city--this time asking whether it's possible to break the cycle of drugs and violence. A police major (Robert Wisdom) creates a system of unofficial "free zones"--blocks where drug dealing is tacitly legalized. Meanwhile a drug kingpin (Idris Elba) tries to persuade his crew to run its drug trade like a business, with less bloodshed and more profit. The surprising--and politically and personally explosive--results on both sides...
...into a frosty beer. Dive is the word. Up the steps, through a wooden door into a neon-lit room with battered furniture, dog racing on a couple of TVs, a pool table in an alcove illuminated by the cold blue light used in public toilets to discourage intravenous drug users...
When researchers and activists gather in Toronto next week for the XVI International AIDS Conference, those problems may at last get some attention. One major concern of AIDS experts is the design of clinical drug trials, which typically exclude older folks because of their age and other health problems. And try to find a prevention poster or ad campaign geared to sexually active seniors. In many cases, those people may need the information as much as the young do. "People who no longer have to worry about pregnancy don't see the need for a condom," says Jeanine Reilly, executive...
...wounded soldiers would not have returned home from World War II. But the battlefields around us have changed. We have quietly entered a new era of antibiotic resistance, and the rules of germ warfare are changing as fast as military tactics. The next generation of patients, scientists, and drug therapy must be prepared to fight battles which will be waged microscopically as well as deep in our throats, skin, hearts and bones...
...force consists of 16 very old Huey helicopters that pilots call "flying coffins"; it has no navy except for four or five patrol boats; no border sensors; no night vision goggles; and minimal special forces. "The Lebanese army needs to focus on becoming more flexible," said Kahwaji. "Weapons smuggling, drug trafficking, al-Qaeda infiltration, this can only be dealt with by special operations...