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...Crimson would earn six more points in the next two matches with a tight 6-5 decision for El-Hayek and anther solid victory for Matt Picarsic. He further solidified his No. 1 EIWA ranking with a strong 8-2 decision over Cornell's Byron Warner...

Author: By Kathryn J. Hodel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wrestling Goes 3-0 on Weekend | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

Junior Kobie Fuller was the only other Harvard athlete to earn a second place finish. He took second in the 400, although he had been the league's best in the event when he was at full strength earlier in the season...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Track Dominates H-Y-P Meet | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...leave, the mother threatened to sell the house to get rid of her daughter. Then she walled off her daughter's room with plywood partitions, leaving the daughter a pariah, alone in a cramped, dark space without windows and only a flimsy door opening into the alley. Laetitia must earn the pennies to feed herself and her children by peddling beer, cigarettes and candy from a shopping cart in her room, when people are brave enough to stop by her door. "Sometimes they buy, sometimes not," she says. "That is how I'm surviving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Stalks A Continent | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

Millions of men share Chikoka's sexually active lifestyle, fostered by the region's dependence on migrant labor. Men desperate to earn a few dollars leave their women at hardscrabble rural homesteads to go where the work is: the mines, the cities, the road. They're housed together in isolated males-only hostels but have easy access to prostitutes or a "town wife" with whom they soon pick up a second family and an ordinary STD and HIV. Then they go home to wives and girlfriends a few times a year, carrying the virus they do not know they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Stalks A Continent | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...hard to find. Each country must negotiate the price of each AIDS-cocktail component with each company, and the tough bargaining has barely begun. While Senegal, for instance, might haggle prices down 75% or 80%, the therapy is still too costly at $1,200 a year for people who earn $510 a year, Senegal's per capita income. And to start, the company will provide sufficient drugs for only 800 patients over five years. Kim Nichols, policy director at the New York City-based African Services, calls it "too little, too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paying for AIDS Cocktails | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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