Word: africas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Number of AIDS-related funerals every day in Africa...
...inability to see the world as an integrated whole. The mind, says Wilson, tends toward false compartmentalization--which brings one back to the Monica story and the stunning compartmentalization of Clinton's mind. Picture him presiding with tears and nobility at the ceremony honoring those killed in the Africa embassy bombings. Picture the same man a couple of days later telling Hillary about Monica. That one mind can live in two such different worlds may be the story of the year...
...conclusion hardened within days. The FBI took Odeh and al-'Owhali into custody in Nairobi, and they began spilling secrets. The security protecting bin Laden's network was porous, and other informants began talking, revealing that bin Laden planned assaults on other U.S. embassies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East...
...tales of slavery and oppression, struggle and emancipation and how all of it changed America so long ago. But on a February day earlier this year, the class at Highline Community School in Aurora, Colo., listened in shock as their teacher read a newspaper story about a country in Africa called Sudan and the thousands and thousands of people, mostly women and children, who were being traded as slaves there. Recalls Vogel: "There was terror and disbelief in their little eyes." Says Brad Morris, 11, who was in class that day: "No one had any idea that slavery could still...
ANDREA DORFMAN was uncovering the past in two stories she reported for this week's issue: one on an ancient skeleton found in South Africa, the other on the ruins of Teotihuacan in Mexico. "So much information is still unknown about who we are and where we came from," says Dorfman, who counts archeology as one of her passions. "As long as researchers continue to find information that adds to our understanding, I think people will be fascinated." The head reporter for TIME's science sections, Dorfman joined us in 1985 after working at a scientific magazine with Michael Lemonick...