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LIKE MOST TRAGEDIES, THE CRASH OF AN EL AL 747-200F cargo jet last week came without warning. Six minutes after taking off from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport bound for Tel Aviv, the pilot reported a fire in a right-wing engine. Seconds later another engine failed and the freighter hurtled into a 10-story apartment building just 10 miles from the airport. As rescue workers uncovered the remains of 51 victims on the ground -- many others were incinerated and will never be found -- investigators searched for an explanation. El Al says an engine fire on the same plane...
...condemned usury -- defined then as any interest on loans -- in language harsher than bishops today use to denounce contraception. The reformers were more lenient. Gradually Europe's great centers of commerce were established in predominantly Protestant Holland and England. Innovation followed upon fiscal innovation. Grain futures were traded in Amsterdam in the 16th century. Paper currency began to replace metal coins. The first check may have been written in London...
BOSTON--Representatives to the Harvard-Amsterdam International Conference on AIDS discussed the evolving international effort against AIDS yesterday in a forum at Harvard Medical School...
...July, the Harvard AIDS Institute sponsored the Amsterdam Conference to exchange information and encourage global unity in fighting the disease...
...Eighth International Conference on AIDS was originally scheduled to be held in Boston. But the organizers, angered by a U.S. policy prohibiting entry by people infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, moved it. So it was that more than 11,000 scientists, policymakers and activists trooped to Amsterdam instead to exchange the latest information...