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That may be happening. Since 1998, the Criminal Law Amendment Act began providing for more severe punishments for rape, including life sentences for gang rapists. Furthermore, FBI officials from the U.S. are training investigators and prosecutors who will be working in 20 courts devoted to trying sex crimes. These are scheduled to open in April 2000. Meanwhile, Smith refuses to give in to depression. The rapist, she says, "cannot imprison my mind. I have the power." She maintains that "God sent me this challenge. I have to turn this evil into good, and that is why I am speaking...
...daughter of Sukarno, Indonesia's first President, Megawati spent her childhood in the presidential palace and has a Brahmin's sense of entitlement. She instinctively shuns the business of dealmaking and says, "For me, silence is a political act." But her refusal to engage with other parties, plus the rabble-rousing tactics of her supporters, threatened to degenerate into a head-on confrontation with Islamic parties. "Megawati's followers were talking about revolution, while some of Habibie's [Muslim] followers were talking about a jihad," says Dewi Fortuna Anwar, a senior adviser to Habibie. A compromise had to be found...
...elusive enzyme could finally offer a target at which drug designers could aim their medications, just as they currently use protease inhibitors to block the activity of the AIDS virus. That potential target is called beta-secretase. It had long been postulated to act as a chemical scissors that helps snip away pieces of excess protein protruding from brain cells, thereby creating the debris that gathers into the toxic plaques called amyloid. The accumulation of these fibrous clumps in the brain of Alzheimer's patients is the likeliest reason for their inexorable decline...
...Rocha has a lofty goal as a lyricist: "I try to write songs that engage people in a critical dialogue about fighting for and among dispossessed peoples around the world." Still, even Bob Marley wrote ballads. Could De la Rocha ever see himself writing a love song? "Every revolutionary act is an act of love," he says. "[So] every song I've ever written has been a love song." From that perspective, The Battle of Los Angeles, with its scathing guitars and whiplash lyrics, is the most romantic CD of the year...
That isn't an ad for a 12-step program for workaholics. It's an act of employer desperation. Steve Loegering, president and CEO of Loegering Manufacturing, ran the pitch to attract workers to his firm in Casselton, N.D., 20 miles west of Fargo, in what Loegering jokingly labels the state's "tropical corner...