Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Bank there was less turmoil but no less resolve to defy Israeli authority. At the central square in Am'ari, a refugee camp on the road between Jerusalem and Ramallah, the shabab gathered, young men ranging in age from 15 to 30. The camp, which houses 5,000 people, is a concrete maze with open sewers running down each alleyway. "No matter what time the army comes, we come out and start confronting them," said Osama Nijim, 23. It has become a way of life, the only way of life in recent weeks, when work has been scarce because...
...similar study in Massachusetts published last year. Not all of these newborns, however, are doomed. Doctors estimate that more than half received only antibodies -- not the virus itself -- from their mothers during gestation. These lucky ones will not develop AIDS. The others, however, will eventually sicken, most before the age...
...attempt to combat further spread of AIDS, Axelrod has written to New York State's 50,000 physicians, including obstetricians and gynecologists, recommending that they routinely counsel all women of childbearing age about the risk of AIDS. The letter urges that all women in the early stages of pregnancy, or even considering pregnancy, be tested. Radio and television campaigns, brochures and posters are also in the works. "The studies are telling us the extent to which AIDS has spread within the community, particularly the intravenous drug-abusing community," Axelrod argues. "We have to look at every preventive action...
...These age-old images of Iowa, however, die hard. Even the candidates, who routinely feign enthusiasm while touring hogpens, foster the hayseed stereotypes. Although their state dominates the news in the closing weeks before the caucuses, Iowans can rightly claim to be misunderstood. Four myths in particular color popular assumptions about the state and its voters...
...recent graduates found that less than half continued to live within the state. "It scares me that Iowa is losing population," said Vern Harvey, a Bettendorf builder, after a recent Kemp rally in nearby Davenport. Replied Pete Agnew, an accountant in his late 30s: "People I know my age have gone to find the rainbow in California...