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...dream of redemptive creativity roughly analogous to hers: he wants to be a rapper. When they and another couple are thrown together on a weekend trip to Oakland, California, in a post-office van, edginess slowly gives way to an understanding that survives even a sudden lurch toward the tragic...
Gone are the tragic images of vacant-eyed skeletal children dying by the thousands in Somali villages. In their place are equally troubling images of shell-shattered civilians and Mogadishu mobs, fists raised in anger against the mounting violence. "It is more dangerous today in Mogadishu than at any time during the civil war," says Howard Bell, country director for the relief agency CARE...
...more tragic, and ironic, reasons for the recent upswing in child prostitution is the mistaken belief that young sex partners are less likely to have AIDS. In fact, the opposite may be true. "Both boys and girls are more vulnerable to infection because they are prone to lesions and injuries in sexual intercourse," says Dr. Pers-Anders Mardh, director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Uppsala, Sweden. "Imagine intercourse occurring millions of times under these conditions." The AIDS epidemic alone is enough to justify a crackdown on child prostitution, says Mardh. "There...
...avoid running a gauntlet of protesters outside an abortion clinic. Still, it won't take all the anguish out of the procedure. "It's insulting to women to say that abortion now will be as easy as taking aspirins," says Baulieu. "It is always difficult, psychologically and physically, sometimes tragic...
...figured we'd miss the real Tommy's and we were right. Tommy, come back. It's not too late to right this tragic wrong. February...