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...sworn allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Kuwait is a critical element of U.S. plans for a possible invasion of Iraq. The oil-rich emirate is likely to be the main springboard for any land invasion. More than 15,000 U.S. troops are already stationed here, training in the bleak desert south of the Iraqi border...
AIDS It was another bleak year for AIDS, as a U.N. report on the global AIDS epidemic made painfully clear. Among its findings: 40 million people are infected with HIV, 3 million of them children. All told, more than 20 million have died of AIDS since 1981. Progress in the research labs has been slow and not that steady, but it has produced some results. Scientists discovered three proteins--alpha-defensins 1, 2 and 3--that may account for the so-called non-progressors, the 1% or 2% of people who contract HIV but never develop AIDS. Also, the Food...
Whatever the specific roots of the conditions, once those environmental and genetic die are cast, is that it for the disordered personality? The short, bleak answer is often yes--at least as long as PD patients resist acknowledging the problem. Anxiety disorders such as phobias are generally referred to as ego-dystonic illnesses: the sufferer acknowledges the problem and wants to do something about it. Personality disorders are ego syntonic: individuals believe that the drama, self-absorption and other traits that characterize their condition are reasonable responses to the way the world is treating them. That's a hard patient...
After a while, things started looking up. Ed and Velma began to see that Peter's prospects were not as bleak as they had feared. They learned to recognize the cyclical nature of schizophrenia; they noticed that Peter would have good days and bad days, and that his ups and downs were not necessarily related to how much medication he was taking. They became involved with mental-health groups, particularly the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Today Ed and Velma lead courses teaching other families how to cope when a loved one is found to have a mental illness...
...Stewart's sense of humor stands him in good stead during a forbidding journey that begins in Istanbul and then carries him through bleak Russia, bleaker Kazakhstan and into the finality of Mon-golia, a swept land that "made the sky ... seem crowded and fussy." Inspired by what he perceives as the Arcadian freedom of the nomads?the word Mongo-lian, he writes, "evokes the scent of grass and of fallen leaves, some atmosphere of twilight and horses"?Stewart plans to journey the 1,600-kilometer breadth of Mongolia by horse, not a good idea unless your last name...