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...year-long project commissioned by the Library of Congress taking pictures of Lowell, Mass. for a documentary on "the culture, tradition and ethnic practices" of Lowell. The town had been a model city for industrialists in the 1800s, when it was a major producer of textiles, but it was hard-hit by economic slumps earlier this century. Lowell is now emerging as a revitalized city and a center for the computer industry...
...expertise to national problems--such as trade, foreign affairs, and the environment. Dukakis rightly places himself against Gephardt's call for sweeping protectionist legislation and instead calls for national attention on rehabilitating our weaker industries. Dukakis considers the best policies to be limited protection of only the most hard-hit industries--such as oil and textiles--only so long as to allow them time to catch up with existing technologies...
Such attitudes rile policymakers who are charged with slashing billions of dollars out of already hard-hit social programs. While no one proposes cutting off the truly needy, those lobbying for reform point out that thousands of millionaires receive a monthly check. Argues Horace Brock, president of Strategic Economic Decisions Inc. in Menlo Park, Calif.: "There may have been a social contract that what you put in you got back, but not six times what you put in." Unless the system is revamped, he warns, when the baby boomers reach retirement age, Social Security will be in jeopardy. Just...
Washington is not the only capital where health officials and politicians have been struggling to shape a policy to fight AIDS. So far, 51,535 AIDS cases have been reported to the Geneva-based World Health Organization by 112 countries, not including some hard-hit African countries. As many as 10 million people are believed to be AIDS carriers, and according to some estimates, 100 million could have the virus by the end of the century. Many governments, mostly in Western Europe, have responded far more swiftly and decisively than the U.S. to the deadly challenge by developing public education...
...spread rapidly among Africans in the same way it has among homosexuals in the U.S.: through sex with multiple partners. Surveys of African AIDS patients in Rwanda and Belgium found they had had an average of 32 sex partners. Huge reservoirs of infection exist along trade routes connecting the hard-hit countries of the AIDS belt. "In the epicenter," says Belgian Microbiologist Peter Piot, "15% to 25% of the adult population is affected. That's really mind blowing...