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This is usually the point at which most of us in the rich countries of the world throw up our hands in despair. Not so Dr. Mark Kline of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "If you focus on the enormity of the problem, you'll never get started," says Kline, who has cared for hundreds of HIV-positive children over the years in the U.S. and has seen many of them grow old enough to have children of their own (see box). "You have to tackle it piece by piece...
...When a problem is for the moment unsolvable, then enlarge it. (O.K., this is a Donald Rumsfeld maxim, but that doesn't make it inoperative.) One precedent is the opening to China negotiated by Henry Kissinger, which did not try to settle such intractable issues as the status of Taiwan but instead created a framework for a realistic long-term relationship involving both cooperation and contention...
...that reason, the new ICA has glass everywhere, both clear and translucent, which is unusual for a museum, a place that has to protect artworks from direct light. The architects have got around that problem by clustering the galleries in enclosed space on the fourth floor while placing most of the public spaces on the lower, more light-filled, levels. Even the 325-seat theater space is bounded on two sides by double-height glass walls so that performances can take place against the backdrop of the harbor. (The walls can also be closed off with scrims when necessary...
...spot a car sporting the license plate LOLITA or MINI-PIMP, change lanes. Psychologists at Colorado State University have found that people who give their car a name or gender are more likely to express road rage, a growing problem that causes some 370 deaths and more than 20,000 injuries each year. "Anything you do to make your car feel like your territory will make you more upset when someone steals your parking space," says Jacob Benfield, a co-author of the study. In fact, a vehicle's aggressive persona was a better predictor of road rage than...
...belts; two-thirds of us are overweight or obese. We dash across the street against the light and build our homes in hurricane-prone areas--and when they're demolished by a storm, we rebuild in the same spot. Sensible calculation of real-world risks is a multidimensional math problem that sometimes seems entirely beyond us. And while it may be true that it's something we'll never do exceptionally well, it's almost certainly something we can learn to do better...