Word: weirdness
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...Mbeki's position reportedly derived from reading Duesberg's ideas while trawling the Internet for information on HIV. And as a proud intellectual and instinctive contrarian, he won't easily be cowed by the howls of protest. In the end, though, Mbeki's flirtation with weird science may prove to be an embarrassment to a government that hopes to lead a continent-wide African renaissance. But that embarrassment will be nothing compared with the human suffering that could result from challenging the fundamentals of AIDS science in a country with one of the world's highest incidences...
...FAVORITE SONG: Hotel California (the only Eagles song I even like--which is weird, I think...
Though "Donna" likes Helfrich and his work, she still thinks the whole thing is pretty weird. "I don't know how I'd feel if I were married to someone who wanted to keep naked pictures of his ex-girlfriends," she says. Yet Helfrich's wife Alexandra, 36, says "he is the most faithful man I have ever met. If I felt he was lecherous or that he would stray, it would be disturbing." Her husband took many rolls of her naked, but she wouldn't let him develop them until they were married. This, no doubt, will...
...Memory is made of a weird elastic. World War II may be fresher now in the public mind than Vietnam. "Saving Private Ryan" brought it back, along with Tom Brokaw's book "The Greatest Generation." But in the next week, because of the anniversary, Vietnam will zoom close again in its vividness for those of us who remember it. To the young, it might as well be the Punic Wars...
...attitude honestly. After 2 1/2 years on the road supporting Tragic Kingdom, Stefani, bassist Tony Kanal, guitarist Tom Dumont and drummer Adrian Young returned to their Southern California homes in 1997 badly frayed. While the guys recuperated, Stefani checked into her parents' house and went through "a weird kind of depression. Maybe not a depression so much as just a cloudy, confusing state for a couple of years...