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...Mchunu, who is a black African, and Johnny Clegg, who is white and an honorary member of the Zulu tribe. Together, Clegg and Mchunu have made some extraordinary music, mixing African rhythms with a contemporary beat and some pointedly political lyrics that manage to be both proud and conscience stricken. This is music that will move you and shake...
...town meeting. "We explained that we were trying to find the cause of the disease," she says, "and while it might not help them, it could help their children and grandchildren." She told the villagers that her mother had died of Huntington's and that she might also be stricken. Holding up her right arm, she pointed to a tiny biopsy scar and revealed that she too had contributed a skin sample for analysis. "They really understood that," Nancy says, "and I think they soon realized that we meant them no harm. I became sort of like a family friend...
Even more important, though, "Dr. No" managed to convince the poverty-stricken sector of the island (approximately 60% of the total population, by U.S. standards) that Congress would discontinue federal aid programs (welfare benefits, food coupons, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare) if they endorsed the amendments...
...Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. Claiming to pursue a "historical truth," this small, insidious group propagates myth after mind-boggling myth: the Holocaust never happened, Anne Frank's Diary is a forgery, far fewer than six million Jews died in Nazi custody, those who did die were stricken by typhoid--not Zyklon...
...third of these pesticides are known to cause cancer. This inordinate use of toxic pesticides poisons and kills farm workers and their children. In McFarland, the rate of cancer diagnosed among children is 800 percent the normal rate. Fourteen children in this grape-growing community of 6000 have been stricken with cancer since 1985; six have already died...