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...quality of child care provided by others will largely determine how well the children fare under the states' new plans. To care for their children, many mothers will rely on relatives and friends, some of whom will be loving and attentive and some of whom will not. Also, the strain on the day-care system is a matter of grave concern to child-development and child-care experts. A recent study found that 40% of day-care centers for infants and toddlers gave less than the minimal standard of care. Problems ranged from safety hazards to unresponsive caregivers...
These questions are inherent in the book as well, but there is more psychological penetration in James than in Campion, even if the same ambiguities remain. Watching the film, you may wonder once or twice whether there isn't a strain of masochism underlying Isabel's sexuality--or vice versa...
...Tatar traders cutting caravan routes through Central Asia brought bubonic plague to Sicily. In the space of four years, the Black Death killed up to 30 million people. In 1520, Cortes' army carried smallpox to Mexico, wiping out half the native population. In 1918 a particularly virulent strain of flu swept through troops in the trenches of France. By the time it had worked its way through the civilian population, 21 million men, women and children around the world had perished--more than were killed in World...
...mistakenly touted as a kind of "morning after" treatment that allows people to relax their guard and engage in risky sexual behavior. By desensitizing the virus to medications, it could jeopardize a patient's ability to respond to future treatments. Worse yet, it could inadvertently create a mutant strain of virus resistant to all currently available drugs--a kind of super HIV--that could lead to a second, even more devastating AIDS epidemic...
...year was 1994, and the new drugs were finally producing good results in the test tube. They worked against laboratory strains of the virus; they worked against viral samples taken from patients. Where AZT merely slowed viral reproduction, the protease inhibitors shut it down almost completely. Unfortunately, almost wasn't good enough. It often took less than a month for a few viral particles to mutate into a strain that was resistant to protease inhibitors. The new drugs were starting to look like another failure...