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...story is doom. It begins with Bessie's being tested for mysterious bruises that signal leukemia. It ends with her facing quick death, knowing she must abandon the father and aunt she has served so long and the nephews she has begun to help. The true tragedy, the most apt AIDS metaphor, is that the world needs more people like her and is about to have one less...
...peace process continues, we hope all sides will abandon these unprovoked polemics and concentrate on achieving the elusive goal of peace in the Middle East. Sharon Fenick '94 Michael Kaplan '92 Harvard Radcliffe Zionist Alliance Shawn Aster '93 Kamran Rokhshar '94 Harvard Israel Political Affairs Committee Joel Gerwin '92-93 Matthew C. Weiner '92 Progressive Jewish Alliance
...sure, none of this is inevitable. It is conceivable that international pressure will cause some of the would-be nuclear powers to abandon their weapons programs, as Brazil, Argentina and South Africa appear to be doing. But that course is slow and uncertain: intelligence data on the suspects is inconclusive and open to sharp disagreement, not only about how far they are from developing usable weapons but even about how determinedly they are trying...
Mount Weather's greatest vulnerability, however, may lie not with nuclear weapons but with human nature. The government officials designated to be evacuated in case of an emergency are not permitted to take their families with them, and many former officials say they would find it unimaginable to abandon husbands, wives or children. The issue has dogged the doomsday planners from the beginning. "I never took it very seriously," says Alexis Johnson, who was Deputy Under Secretary of State during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. "It was an unrealistic thing, it seemed to me, that we'd all pick...
...moving toward a digital system that can be more easily integrated with computers and other advanced video technology. The unwieldy alliance -- business, government and public-TV broadcasters -- that is bankrolling HDTV in Japan has been slow in reacting to that technological challenge. "It is too late for us to abandon the old analog system," admits a Japanese electronics executive. "The future is digital...