Word: contact
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...They seem out of place in the world of AIDS. Neither injects drugs. Neither has had any contact with the sex trade. But they represent the newest and most troubling front in China's war against the AIDS virus. As in other countries hit by HIV, the epidemic in China began in the margins of society?among migrant workers, drug users and prostitutes?and then gradually entered the mainstream population. In China this process was facilitated by the government, which, through the tragic mismanagement of its blood-buying program in the early 1990s, permitted blood-collecting practices that ended...
FREE SAMPLE "Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of every day human contact. I just fake...
...from lack of exercise. His son, an engineer who refused to work for Saddam and now cannot find a job, is hugely obese from years of idleness. The doctor chafes that he cannot use the Internet to refresh his medical knowledge. After years of being cut off from outside contact under Saddam, he had hoped that by now he could tap into foreign research. But the phone lines are too weak to connect to the Web. "I was so hopeful," he says, "and I still find myself contained...
...best hope for springing a hostage comes at the initial stage. Groups like White's contact mosques, tribal leaders, militias and even former intelligence agents in search of news about the victim. Because the low-level gangs are after cash, a quick payout might free the hostage before he is "sold up" to groups with less easily deciphered, deadlier agendas. Such deals can be lucrative: prices paid range from $10,000 to $100,000, according to White, with U.S. soldiers fetching the highest rate...
...Highlands and five have relatives in hiding there or in jail. All carry folders of papers listing the names, ages and villages of people they've been told are injured or missing. H., a 37-year-old refugee, has just got off the phone with a Highlands contact, and his eyes are red and puffy. He knows he's fortunate with his new life in North Carolina: the factory job and the cramped, two-bedroom apartment. But that doesn't help him forget the relatives he left behind. "Sometimes during breaks at work," he says, "the manager asks me what...