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There's no doubt Africans have borne the brunt of the AIDS epidemic. Now researchers in London and Texas say it may have something to do with a single gene variant that could account for 11%, or about 2.5 million, of Africa's HIV cases...
...watchers agree that the sellers got a sweet deal. "We feel it is a very fair price," says Decker Anstrom, president of Landmark Communications, who called the sale a "bittersweet moment" for the privately owned family business, which launched the cable channel back in 1982. Initially derided as the brunt of jokes, the forecast focused channel became profitable within four years and soon had established itself as a media category killer. Sheryl Crow named a song after it in 2002, and today it has an estimated 85 million viewers, many of whom are more than happy to tune in numerous...
...leadership is a target. Tsvangirai is arrested on a weekly, sometimes daily basis, and on June 12 MDC Secretary-General Tendai Biti was detained at Harare airport and charged with treason. But it is lower-ranking activists and ordinary Zimbabweans who have borne the brunt. The MDC claims 25,000 people have fled the violence, thousands of its supporters have been beaten, hundreds hospitalized, and 66 killed, while 200 more are missing. (Reporting restrictions mean the figures cannot be verified.) A doctor who examined the bodies of two dead MDC activists tells TIME their tongues had been mutilated. In Bhegedhe...
...land is lunar-like now," says Ian Brunt, who's on 120 hectares near the New South Wales town of Finley and has been rice farming for 32 years. "The tractor's throwing up clouds of dust." Les Gordon recalls the disenchantment among farmers in 1982 when state authorities limited farmers to 60% of their normal water allowance. Now, "I would kill for a 60% allocation," says Gordon, who still farms with his father, Henry. "Dad planted his first rice crop in 1949. No one around here has seen conditions like this before...
...crops, however. Insiders doubt whether Australia's rice production will ever return to pre-drought levels. Under proposed water-policy reforms, farmers in the Murray-Darling Basin will be subject to tighter restrictions than in the past. "My wife and I are sticking it out," says Ian Brunt. "But we've got three boys with equity in their own farms, and they've had enough and want out. They're sick of drought and sick of the politics of water." Murray Hartin's poem ends happily, with the hero hugging his wife as "they heard the roll of thunder...