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PREGNANT WOMEN WHO HARBOR THE AIDS VIRUS have a 30% chance of passing the infection on to their unborn children. But conventional tests, which detect the presence of antibodies to the virus, cannot determine which babies are infected and thus need immediate treatment. The ambiguity occurs because the mother's own antibodies cross the placenta, causing the newborn to test positive even if it is not infected...
Many Haitians are hungry for quicker solutions. Rumors persist in Port-au- Prince that the American ships offshore harbor U.S. Marines who could land, just as they did in 1915 to restore stability and protect American investments following racial clashes between the country's mulatto and black citizens. Forgetting that the subsequent occupation lasted 19 years -- and was not always a happy one -- Haitian nationalists whisper that U.S. intervention may be the only answer. "You have to impose a solution. You can't negotiate," says one, who never thought he would welcome U.S. troops...
...elsewhere. His chest-pounding provocations were a classic barbarians-at-the-gate strategy, designed to deflect attention from the dismal economic situation at home, heightened by U.N. sanctions, that has left Iraqis hunting daily for food. His police apparatus has reasserted its grip since the war, so citizens harbor few doubts that Saddam is still in charge. But he may have cause to worry about his 400,000-man armed forces. Kurds and other opponents have spread stories of anti-Saddam moles within the armed forces, particularly those stationed far from Baghdad. "I think a substantial portion of the military...
...deal out of major anniversaries. This year much attention, politically correct and politically incorrect alike, has been given to the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World. A little over a year ago, a dramatic ceremony commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. For God's sake, it wasn't too long ago that there was a gala ceremony to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spam...
...Blair House session was held in a first-floor conference room dominated by a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt. At least one of Clinton's aides noted the irony: "Here it was Pearl Harbor Day, and we were dropping an economic bombshell on the boss under a painting of the Depression President." To minimize the chances of Clinton's insisting on a line-by-line reassessment of his plan's assumptions, a chart titled Budget Deficit Forecasts Under PPF Policies was, according to one Clinton aide, "rounded off in a conelike fashion and rendered approximate." It was a fool's errand...