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No sooner did the report appear than the CDC began hearing from doctors in San Francisco and New York City, who were also seeing PCP in young homosexual men. And that was not all they were seeing. Many of the patients bore the purplish lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: A Growing Threat | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

While the ability to wage such high-tech combat will remain a dream, or nightmare, for years to come, it is very much a gleam in the Pentagon's eye. Working largely through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a special unit devoted to exotic weaponry, military planners are developing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over Hill, over Dale... | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Through a network of 18 affiliated botanical gardens and horticultural research facilities in 14 states, the center this summer coordinated the collection of 92 threatened species, including such exotic plants as the pygmy fringe tree and Gray's lily. It plans to at least double that number next year and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Living Library of Plants | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

It also has Australia, specifically a vast sheep farm near Canberra owned by Harry and Liz Barton. Liz's mother BB (short for Betty Beauchamp) lives on the place, growing more gaga and malevolent by the day. Worse, Younger Sister Josie arrives from New York City for a Christmas visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Nov. 25, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

The outlaw Montana that I moved to 15 years ago and that my Eastern friends had apprehensions about--many of them quickly dismissed once they visited and fired a few rounds from the target pistols I own or took a pickup down to a local bar with a poker table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Montana Is Turning Blue | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

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