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I was relieved to read that former President Bill Clinton's foundation has launched a program to help developing countries fight AIDS [Nov. 3]. Some months ago, I watched a harrowing documentary about a young child whose immune system was so weakened by the advanced stages of AIDS that he...
Gary Myers, 49, isn't a thrill seeker, but this past summer he leaped at the chance to travel to civil war--engulfed Liberia. Myers, who was a surgeon in Oklahoma, had grown frustrated with American medicine's commercialism. With his kids grown and some money saved, he volunteered with...
Still, it wasn't until about 10,000 years ago, when people began settling into permanent agricultural communities, that winemaking could turn into an extensive enterprise. Through trial and error, experts speculate, the world's first vintners would have learned to manipulate both the yeast that turns grape juice into...
This was something strange and new. Reading literature and having a damn good time had become quietly but decidedly uncoupled. And yet we think of this state of affairs as normal, and it has left us with a set of perverse biases that persist to this day. We have a...
When French president Jacques Chirac learned on Nov. 15 that a Jewish school had been set ablaze in the Paris suburb of Gagny, he sounded the tocsin. Officials flocked to the scene of the fire, and, 48 hours later, Chirac summoned his closest advisers to the Elysée Palace...