Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite dogged detective work by the world's best researchers, AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) remains one of the most mysterious maladies ever to confront medical science. The more researchers learn about the disease, the more questions they have. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), proclaimed to be the cause of AIDS, has proved to be a fiendishly fast-moving target, able to mutate its structure to elude detection, drugs and vaccines. No one knows for sure how HIV destroys the human immune system, and puzzled experts have debated whether the virus is the only culprit at work...
...people die, their loved ones weep. For the second time in two months, furious Italians beat the air with their fists. This, they shout, is too much; the time has come to face down the Mafia, the romanticized clan of criminals they love to hate but refuse to confront. THIS IS ALL-OUT WAR! the headlines scream. What was rarely said last week, as a shocked and shamed Italy tensed for the next blow, was that the Mafia has evolved into the world's foremost crime organization because in its war with the state, only one side is using real...
Most of the country's means to confront organized mobsters remain ineffectual. Strikes, speeches and taking phones away from prisoners mock the dedication of Falcone, Borsellino and their colleagues. A sweeping crime law modeled on the RICO acts would be a useful start. But until the state applies the same determination and courage that enabled it to stamp out the political terrorism of the 1970s, the battle against the Mafia will be one-sided, and the odds against the good guys will grow longer...
...certainly gotten calls and letters from people saying how much they appreciate the fact that I'm willing to stand up and be counted. We have all presumed that there are other people who have achieved higher rank within the military and left without having to confront the situation or choosing to come out. Now there is a sense of purpose, I think, for many, waiting to see what is going to happen...
...jettison his dreams of playing pro baseball. One patient returned to a favorite fishing hole -- and found an apartment building. Women who have missed the chance to have children stare sadly at the enlarged girth of counselor Kathy Sinkiewicz, pregnant with her second child. Patients eventually have to confront and if necessary "mourn" these losses, says Sinkiewicz. Dancing at a belated high school prom was part of that process, but only the first of many intricate steps back toward life...