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Q: No reader can miss the extraordinary historical detail you bring to 1492. What problems did you encounter in writing a historical novel?
The initial skepticism that greeted Magic Johnson's explanation of how he had contracted the AIDS virus stemmed from such studies -- and from his reluctance to speak directly to the rumors of bisexual activities in the past. Johnson finally addressed those rumors last week. "I have never had a homosexual...
Until there is a vaccine or a cure, responsibility for AIDS in America will have to remain where it is now: with the people in danger of getting and spreading it. For the individual considering a casual sexual encounter, wearing a condom -- or abstaining altogether -- can mean the difference between...
One appalling tendency is for the newcomers to adopt historic American racism. UCLA's Estrada says he is "amazed" at how quickly immigrants move "from never having seen a black person to becoming racist against them." Their view, he argues, is shaped by the media, the movies, the countless subtle...
While NASA studied Magellan's images, another space explorer made history last week. Moving out beyond Mars, Galileo became the first spacecraft to have a close encounter with an asteroid. But pictures of the mysterious planetary fragment, called Gaspra, are unavailable because Galileo's main antenna for sending out images...