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...addition, HRDC will produce two plays--Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera and a play adapted from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold-- both designed to showcase minority actors...
...undeniably created a disaster of monumental and mounting proportions. Up to 1.4 million Americans, and perhaps 10 million people worldwide, are already infected with the AIDS virus. Since the virus may lie dormant in the body for years before causing the disease, the number of AIDS cases -- and the death toll -- will continue rising for years...
...Cuban missile crisis, which seemed done to death on its 25th anniversary less than two years ago, is skillfully re-created. The show combines interviews with participants (including, thanks to glasnost, an aide to Nikita Khrushchev and another official who was the Soviet ambassador to Cuba at the time) and excerpts from secretly recorded tapes of John F. Kennedy's deliberations with his top advisers. In contrast to the traditional version of the episode, one of the leading hawks, at least initially, is the President's brother Bobby. He is heard suggesting that it may be necessary to "sink...
SYPHILIS. The number of reported U.S. cases of syphilis, a bacterial infection that can cause blindness and death, rose 17% last year, to about 101,000. The disease was once prevalent among homosexuals, but the precautions that gays have taken against AIDS have helped combat syphilis as well. But syphilis is racing through the inner cities, driven by the promiscuity of crack addicts...
Using easy-to-follow formulas, the author demonstrates that the chance of falling victim to terrorists is less than 1 in 1.5 million (compared with, for example, 1 chance in 68,000 of choking to death or 1 in only 5,300 of dying in a car crash), that the number of possible five-card poker hands is 2,598,960 and that the size of a human cell is to that of a person as that of a person is to the size of Rhode Island. Paulos also notes that 367 people have to be gathered to ensure that...