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Assuming it's true, it is difficult to accept Helvey's excuse as justification for murder. If death is a legitimate punishment for sexual harassment, then the male naval officers who stripped, groped and molested women at the 1991 Tailhook convention in Las Vegas deserve to die...
...Liberia. Shortages of food and gasoline are severe; road and rail links between major cities have been virtually swallowed by the encroaching jungle. Even in the capital's Mama Yemo hospital -- named for Mobutu's deceased mother -- children suffer without medication, and hundreds of victims of the AIDS epidemic die untreated. In the trackless bush, where millions of peasants and tribesmen still live, the scourges of leprosy, trypanosomiasis and malaria are again pandemic...
...most of them tested positive for the AIDS virus, they are barred from the U.S. Suspicious of their captors and even their doctors, many have staged a hunger strike, and their situation has now become critical. "The next few days will determine whether or not the Haitians live or die," says attorney Michael Ratner...
...skin . . . It's in my family. . . . Using makeup evens it out, 'cause it makes blotches on the skin." The disease, vitiligo, is "more visible with those with black or brown skin," says Dr. Madhu Pathak, a professor of dermatology at Harvard. "There is treatment. Michael Jackson may die of other diseases but not from this one. He will have a normal life...
Complexity theorists believe more sophisticated phenomena follow the same pattern. The stock market can, without outside direction, hum along on an upward course for years and then crash 500 points in a single day. A species can survive for millions of years and then abruptly die out -- or conversely, evolve almost all at once into something entirely new. And self-reproducing organisms can somehow arise, against all odds, from a soup of simple organic chemicals...