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He's referring to the infamous Tuskegee experiment, conducted by the U.S. government from the 1930s to the early '70s, during which doctors denied nearly 400 black men in Alabama treatment for syphilis in order to observe the disease's long-term effects. The scars left by Tuskegee are slow...
The AIDS epidemic is a prime example. According to the Centers for Disease Control, blacks account for 50% of new HIV and AIDS cases in the U.S., although they represent only 13% of the population. African-American women are especially at risk; their annual AIDS case rate is 25 times...
For China's leaders, however, the instant city has not been an instant success. Shenzhen is still booming, to be sure, but not in the direction envisioned by Peking. Last summer, Deng Xiaoping expressed caution about the city's future. Instead of proclaiming Shenzhen's progress, as he usually did...
In general, she found, the Other Woman of today is either pursuing a promising career or trying to get past the turmoil of a divorce. A majority of Richardson's women had been married once and had had affairs with older men, often a mentor or a boss. A few...
Now France seems set to begin a historic experiment in power sharing. It is up to Mitterrand to choose within 20 days a Premier who reflects the new right-of-center majority. Since his Socialists ran better than anticipated, the President has a stronger position, but his task will still...