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Another problem is that while AIDS is almost completely preventable, prevention methods must be taught to potential victims. Yet sex education of any sort is rare in Africa, and many people lack even the most basic understanding of how the disease is spread. Upon hearing that AIDS in Africa was mostly a heterosexually transmitted disease, for example, prostitutes in western Kenya started offering clients unprotected anal sex. Since they considered this form of sex "homosexual," they figured they'd be safe...
...Florida cracker, I'm a Graham cracker." "He'll sing it at the drop of a hat," says historian and Truman biographer David McCullough, whose son Bill is married to Graham's daughter Cissy. When grief-stricken Miamians took to the streets two weeks ago as news spread that Elian Gonzalez was returning to Cuba, Graham began composing a sympathetic operetta, setting the little boy's saga to music. In a mythic scene, Elian's mother emerges slowly from the ocean, her gown drenched, and softly, in a voice that gradually grows louder, she sings of her loss...
...goods. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press; 734 pages; $25.95) would have sold millions of copies had its U.S. and British publishers simply dumped them in bookstores, unannounced, and then got out of the way as word of mouth spread among stampeding Pottermaniacs. That is pretty much the way the first three books about the boy wizard so phenomenally caught fire among young readers and then their parents and other adults as well. The trouble with such spontaneous, rapturous enthusiasm, at least to those with their gimlet eyes on the bottom...
...risen about 10% a year recently, the cost to small businesses has gone up at about twice that rate. Many owners stop offering coverage or push costs onto employees, who then opt out. Basically, big companies with thousands of employees get better rates because the underwriter's risks are spread out. One catastrophic illness is easily absorbed. But one big-ticket illness in a pool of 10 or 20 people can make premiums unaffordable...
...offer health insurance under ERISA. Vice President Al Gore and other Democrats oppose that measure, fearing it would undermine state-mandated coverage and hurt existing intrastate insurance pools offered by labor unions and others. Gore's response is to encourage more purchasing coalitions like those already in place to spread out risk. He would also reward small-business owners with tax credits for providing health plans...