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...added that many times, once such letters have been sent, the perpetrator will “just disappear...
...helps explain why AIDS is such a devastating disease and why it can spread so fast." In the process of rampant replication, the AIDS virus destroys its home, the T cell. Thus it is a peculiar feature of this disease that as it progresses, the helper T cells disappear and so does the virus. By then, however, the patient is invariably beyond recovery...
...last week's New York Times, "could you give police an accurate description?" Most parents probably could, but doubt was at the heart of the campaign by Lafayette/Circuit City, a consumer-electronics chain with headquarters in Richmond. As an identification aid against the terrible day when a youngster might disappear, the ad offered a free videotape of any child brought to a Lafayette store in the New York City area, urging parents to "bring your own videotape or [we] will sell you one at cost...
While even one kidnaped child is a tragedy, experts disagree over how widespread the problem really is. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in suburban Washington, which is partially funded by the Justice Department, estimates that every year 1.5 million children disappear, run away, are kidnaped or get kicked out of their homes. If true, that staggering figure means that roughly 1 of every 42 youngsters is in danger...
...aspires to be recognized as a market economy," said trade minister Mark Vaile last week. "Well, hello, this is how a market works." If Chinese interests had greater equity in the local resources sector, says an Australian government official, much of the ill-will arising from contract negotiations would disappear. Cashed-up China can afford to invest directly. But it hasn't yet done so in a big way, although it has assets of around $A2.2 billion in resources, real estate, power stations and farms. Still, China's buying potential elicits murmurs about "selling off the farm," an echo...