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When I read of Job's anguish, how he lost his home, all of his children and finally his health, I realize that my worries are laughable. Sure, I've been upset at times. I vividly remember the despair I felt last spring when I learned that my blocking group was quadded; I did not, however, feel the kind of pain that prompted Job to cry, "Perish the day when I was born." Not by a long shot...
Even so, the worst fear--the one that seeded a decade with despair, the foreboding sense that nothing could beat AIDS--has finally been exorcised. If any one person can be credited with having presided over that rite, it is Dr. David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City. Starting in the early 1990s, he and others focused on the very first stages of HIV infection, hoping to learn what the body does right in fighting the virus and how to strengthen that response. What Ho and his colleagues have learned has fundamentally changed...
...Kuwait that year, they rebelled, hoping at last to gain the separate homeland that has perpetually eluded more than 20 million ethnic Kurds spread across Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. The revolt failed when Saddam turned his surviving corps of helicopter gunships on them, and they fled in despair into the northern mountains...
CHICAGO: For members of a party that virtually assumes victory in November, a lot of Democrats in Chicago this week are looking worried and anxious. The talk at a gathering of New York delegates and friends Wednesday afternoon was embittered. Many Democrats are close to despair over the looming consequences of the welfare reform law that President Clinton just signed, even as they are dependent on Clinton to help mitigate the consequences in a second term. "It is absolutely the worst bill passed in my 22 years in Congress," said Illinois Senator Paul Simon. "What's going to happen...
...erstwhile reformer and now "nowhere man" Boris Yeltsin [WORLD, Aug. 5] has surrounded himself with other "nowhere men." They fiddle while the country burns. In the meantime, Western idealists and cynical Russians despair of ever finding a savior for the Motherland. Poor Russia, so far from God, so close to Siberia. LYNN R. ELIASON Logan, Utah