Word: africa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carriages, trading vessels, sledges and even elephants. But no balloon. It was Hollywood, not Jules Verne, that sent the intrepid Brit off in that aircraft. Trivia, you say? But there was nothing trivial about the real-life fulfillment of what seemed to be quixotic fantasy last week in Northern Africa. In a 180-ft.-high balloon, a silvery dare in the air, two adventurers--Swiss psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard, 41, and British balloon instructor Brian Jones, 51--completed their tour of the world in 20 days. The stakes were different (a purse of $1 million, courtesy of Anheuser-Busch, as opposed...
...WEBSTER HUBBELL, are certain to stir all the old questions about Hillary's own ethics. Her name was mentioned no fewer than 36 times in the indictment against Hubbell last fall. But despite the new signal of how bumpy a ride she may face, Hillary headed off to North Africa no closer to a decision, an adviser says. "She's exactly where she was four weeks...
There must be something bittersweet about all that pain, however, because there are Harvard students who, even now, are knocking back pints of Guinness in Dublin, watching funny mammals with pouches in Australia, and feeling the Cape breeze on their faces in South Africa. And most of them will graduate on time along with the rest of their class...
...strikes between one-fifth and one-quarter of people between the ages of 15 and 49 in Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, according to the release, and South Africa is home to one in every 10 new HIV infections...
Since its inception in 1988, the institute has worked with researchers in Senegal to combat the AIDS virus in Africa...