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...power in 1949 that evangelists were finally expelled and extensive church lands reclaimed for farming. Most religious leaders later spent decades in re-education camps. When China reopened to the West in the late 1970s, missionaries were among the first to enter, often as the only people willing to brave rural hardships as English teachers. In 1986 the government approved a foundation, Amity, to print Bibles and place Western religious workers in schools, hospitals and nursing homes...
...obvious way is to point to the broader benefits. Thus cloning proponents like to attach themselves to the whole arena of stem-cell research, the brave new world of inquiry into how the wonderfully pliable cells of seven-day-old embryos behave. Embryonic stem cells eventually turn into every kind of tissue, including brain, muscle, nerve and blood. If scientists could harness their powers, these cells could serve as the body's self-repair kit, providing cures for Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzheimer's and paralysis. Actors Christopher Reeve, paralyzed by a fall from a horse, and Michael...
...America's face; but here he's playing a man with so little confidence that his face anticipates reproach. He's not the star he was, or the man. "Hey, aren't you Frank Elgin?" someone asks, and he murmurs, "I used to be." It is a brave and delicate consideration of decay, by someone who was finally in his acting prime...
...efforts from the U.N. But, she says,"I still have people who look at me like trash..." Her voice trails off. "Sometimes when I go to sleep I fear for the future of my children. But I will not run away now. Talking about it: that's what's brave...
...began fighting again. After announcing his HIV status at a rally on World AIDS Day in 1993--an extraordinarily brave act in Africa, where few activists, let alone army officers, ever admit to having HIV--he set up a network for those living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda, "so that people had somewhere to go to talk to friends." And while Uganda has done more to slow the spread of AIDS than any other country--in some places the rate of infection has dropped by half--"we can always do better," says Ruranga. "Why are we able to buy guns...