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...dusty Ugandan trading center of Kyotera, near the Tanzanian border. For her, the lyrics describe a bitter reality. Josephine is dying because she had sexual intercourse with her late husband. A prosperous trader, he had contracted "slim disease," a painful wasting away of body tissues by uncontrolled weight loss, chronic diarrhea and prolonged fever. The affliction is the most common way that AIDS manifests itself in Africa...
Until such restructuring takes place, Europe is unlikely to make substantial progress against its chronic unemployment problem. Though some countries will show a slight improvement this year, the overall European jobless rate could remain stuck at 11%. The prognosis for a swift cure is bleak because manufacturers are continuing to trim their work forces as a way of containing costs and boosting productivity...
...sorry state of student-faculty contact is something which affects us all directly and is, consequently, an ideal subject for activism. Despite chronic grumbling, students have yet to advocate concrete, unified solution. Indeed, complaints rarely move beyond the whining stage. Activism could gain credibility by galvanizing support for much-needed reforms, such as finding ways in which students and professors could meet more casually...
...veteran Politburo Member Le Duc Tho, 76. They are among the last members of the generation of leaders that defeated the French and the Americans on the battlefield. But they failed to reap the benefits of peace, leaving behind a legacy of 800% inflation, widespread unemployment and chronic shortages...
...Society is saying we're sick of carnage on thehighways caused by drunken drivers, especially themultiple offenders," Robbins said. He said that ifapproved, the new bill will make it easier toconvict chronic offenders. "With the new bill,Massachusetts will become one of the tougheststates in the nation to drunken drivers," he said."What we're going after now is the hard-coremultiple offender...