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The shipwreck is one result of the largely unregulated growth of Antarctic enterprise. Says Peter Wilkniss, head of the National Science Foundation's polar programs: "We are witnessing the dawn of the commercial age in Antarctica." Thousands of tourists are flocking to the once inaccessible continent. Throughout the 1984-85...
That is about as self-pitying as This Boy's Life ever gets. Wolff's main interest is not the harshness of his childhood but the strategies of survival he learns, tutored by domestic eccentricities and the promise of a vast land where memory is short and every morning promises...
Outside the U.S., the incidence of AIDS varies wildly: an estimated 1 million Brazilians may be infected with the virus, but only 1,200 Japanese. The epidemic is still raging in Africa, where many scientists believe the disease originated. AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, unlike anywhere else, is a heterosexual...
Word of the Nanjing violence set off further outbreaks. In Hangzhou, African students boycotted classes. In Wuhan and Beijing, hundreds of Chinese students staged anti-African demonstrations. The Gambia government registered a formal protest, and diplomats from Ghana and Benin voiced displeasure over Chinese treatment of their nationals. But overall...
But among Africans, there is fear that Beijing's largesse to their continent will shrink. While commercial ties are strong, China has sharply reduced its economic assistance to African countries as it has concentrated on closing the gap with the industrialized West.