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AFRICA. Across a wide arc south of the Sahara, the continent is plagued by drought and famine. Economic development has virtually ceased: many already poor countries are suffering declining growth rates if not widespread starvation. Grisly as it is, this situation offers the U.S. a chance to help itself diplomatically by acting on its best humanitarian instincts. The U.S. already provides more than half the emergency aid needed to feed Africa's hungry millions, a trend that has not gone unnoticed. For example, Mozambique, still officially a Marxist nation and once heavily dependent on Soviet aid, "has slid away from...
Timid escalator riders who look twice before taking their first step will soon have something new to worry about. After years of trying, Mitsubishi Electric has developed a moving staircase that carries passengers not just up or down in a straight line but through a graceful, sweeping arc. The first two circular escalators will be installed next March in a shopping mall in Tsukuba, Japan. Cost: $325,000. A pair of conventional models, by contrast, costs...
...everyone infected by the virus will develop AIDS. "There is clearly a spectrum of outcomes," says Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School. While some individuals will develop the full-blown syndrome, others will simply manifest the flulike symptoms of AIDS-related complex (ARC), a condition marked by swollen glands, weight loss and weakness. While no patient has been known to recover from AIDS, there is new evidence, according to Dr. Jeffrey Laurence of Cornell Medical College, that some ARC patients do get better...
...Allies begin to recapture territory, local politics keeps dividing them. Churchill supports Charles de Gaulle as the leader of Free France; Roosevelt dislikes and distrusts the general. "The day he arrived [in Casablanca]," F.D.R. comments bitterly, "he thought he was Joan of Arc." And when De Gaulle keeps pressing his claim to govern North Africa, Roosevelt explodes, "Why doesn't De Gaulle go to war? Why doesn't he start [marching]? It would take him a long time to get to the Oasis of Somewhere...
Winding his Rhine-wide shoulders, he hurled the platter in a high arc and hit a personal best of 166 ft. 9 in. Thompson's first two throws were stubby line drives, neither exceeding 140 ft. If he had done no better on his third try, Thompson would have slumped to second place. But he reared back and uncorked his alltime best of 152 ft. 9 in. His lead was preserved, though only 32 points now separated...