Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anticipation surrounding the announcement of Jonas Salk's new, intensely hyped AIDS vaccine at the international AIDS conference in Berlin quickly turned to disappointment. In experimental trials it seemed to slow the virus' spread as advertised, but other researchers maintain that the effect is too small to be significant...
...truckers and migrant workers who ply the main road between Berlin and Prague, this particular seven-mile stretch of E55 is the "Highway of Cheap Love," the longest brothel in the world, a smorgasbord of lust. Travelers can pause at rest stops, munch on french fries and sausages and, for just $30, pick up a girl -- maybe one as young as 15 -- for half an hour in the bushes or in a truck cab or shabby motel. For the men, the encounters are alluring, if seedy, interludes at a bargain price...
...many in the spreading diaspora are victims of pimps and gangs? "Almost all the women are abused," claims Antwerp social worker Patsy Sorenson, who has helped more than 40 East European prostitutes escape. "The Georgian Mafia is the most violent: rapes, threats with guns and beatings." Equally notorious in Berlin and Prague: the so-called Chechen Boys, North Caucasians who reportedly deal in weapons, counterfeit money, drugs and women. Francine Meert, head of Le Nid, a Brussels aid group, says, "Many of the girls have broken teeth. They say they fell downstairs. But there are so many of them that...
...down the trade. But in many places the danger has yet to register. "If a young prostitute is found to have AIDS," says Peter Racine, a counselor who works with Honduran street children in Tegucigalpa, "they send her away to a smaller pueblo, where she continues to work." In Berlin, German streetwalkers are complaining about Polish women pouring into the city and turning unprotected tricks. Naively, the Poles -- laid off from regular jobs and trying to support families -- hope to cash in quickly and return home in a few months. Raised as Catholics, "their AIDS awareness is nil," says social...
...year was 1989. Wielding sledgehammers, picks and shovels, thousands of freedom-loving Germans brought down the Berlin Wall, the symbol of Eastern isolation and oppressive communism. The same year, throwing elbows and fists, the Detroit Pistons brought the Los Angeles Lakers' hopes of a three-peat crashing down as well...