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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Doctors developed a treatment for tuberculosis in the 1940s, but it continues to spread, especially in the developing world...

Author: By Summer Briefs, SUMMER BRIEFS | Title: While You Were Gone | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

Because of their weakened immune system, HIV patients are often susceptible to TB, which has allowed the disease to spread...

Author: By Summer Briefs, SUMMER BRIEFS | Title: While You Were Gone | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

Night had fallen over the dusty city of Luoyang, and the agents who call themselves the Secret Service Christians were ready to commence their most dangerous mission yet, to disperse 60 Americans into the Chinese hinterlands to spread the word of God covertly. Wendy Lawson, a member of the South Hills Assembly of God Church in Bethel Park, Pa., was trained for the Tract Bombers, the Service's most elite force. After a bruising half-day journey to get to the central Chinese city, the 51-year-old paramedic tucked her fair hair under a hat and crammed 300 religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Smugglers Are Working for Jesus | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...Olympics. Being in the Olympics is a privilege, not a right. I want to get the athletes involved. The Australians are voting on maybe giving voluntary blood tests in Sydney to prove they're clean. That's a sign of willingness. I want that to spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summer Olympics: Are Drugs Winning the games? | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...knew a farmer in Kenya once, who lived with his wife and daughter on a spread as remote as he could find, in Laikipia, up above Nanyuki, among elephants and giraffes and baboons and lions. He'd been a coal miner in England, and looked a little like a tougher, non-literary D. H. Lawrence - dark-browed, long-faced. He came to Africa, he told me vehemently, "because I hate the sight of a paved road! I can't stand it!" His black eyes flashed violently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disappearing Fast — the Joy of a Dirt Road | 9/6/2000 | See Source »

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