Word: death
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...help breaking into a grin whenever he discusses the new project, and smiles haven't come easily to him of late. In the 1990s, he and ADARC established themselves as leaders in the AIDS field by pioneering the early use of the antiretroviral (ARV) cocktails that have reduced the death rate from AIDS (for which Ho was named TIME's Person of the Year in 1996). But in recent years, the center has suffered a series of setbacks, including a scientific paper that required a partial retraction, and the departure of key scientists. These challenges have some in the field...
...hardest job in the world. It takes too long and doesn't pay well enough. After he directed his first movie, Bob Hoskins said it was like being pecked to death by penguins. Bill Murray said it's seven times more work for the same money. I love the collaboration. I love to work with a director. That's the fun part...
After an eight-month investigation, a U.N. agency concluded that Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom played no role in the shooting death of lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg in May 2009--despite a video left by Rosenberg saying Colom was planning to kill him. The panel said that evidence indicated Rosenberg had orchestrated his own murder to try to frame Colom, whom he blamed for involvement in the earlier slaying of his girlfriend and her father, a prominent businessman...
Miep Gies entered history without wanting to. She did what many others were too afraid to do: she risked her freedom, her life, in her determination to save Jews from deportation and death. From 1942 to '44, Gies, who died Jan. 11 at 100, helped shelter and feed Anne Frank and her family in an attic in Amsterdam, where at that time Jews were being branded, humiliated and condemned just because they were Jews. Her life remains a moral example for millions to follow...
...Belarus' economy and security are still deeply dependent on Russia despite improved relations with the West. Lukashenko admitted as much last month when he said that severing ties with the Kremlin - as Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has done - would bring about his "political death." (See pictures of Vladimir Putin's patriotic youth camp...