Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...colleague David Resnick - who maintain that the HIV virus is harmless and not the cause of AIDS - to serve on a panel advising the government over whether to make AZT available to pregnant HIV carriers. Duesberg and Resnick argue that the high incidence of AIDS in Africa is based less on unprotected sex than on such poverty-related conditions as undernourishment...
...Corkery's goal with 4:33 remaining in the first was Harvard's fourth strike in less than four minutes...
...subjects suffered through an eternity of low-fat, high-fiber diets, while the other half went happily on their way eating their usual (read: low-fiber) foods. In a development that more than one researcher calls "shocking," members of the high-fiber group were no slower than their ostensibly less healthy counterparts to develop colorectal polyps - often a precursor to cancer...
...into prison. In part, of course, we jest; the figures, though, are serious. According to the DOJ's calculations, the U.S. adult prison population reached record levels in 1999; jails housed 1.86 million people last year, or one of every 147 citizens. That makes America, which in 1985 had less than 800,000 people behind bars, the most jail-happy nation in the world, edging out Russia, the former front-runner...
...prisons gobble up a considerable portion of the public purse (about $15,000 per prisoner, per year). If the economy goes south and the tax base dries up, politicians keen on looking tough on crime may find that a lot of crimes are going to start looking a lot less serious...