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Many researchers complain that the billion-dollar federal onslaught on AIDS has also underrepresented women. At a time when women are the fastest-growing group afflicted by AIDS, there are troubling uncertainties about whether treatments or the disease itself are affecting women differently from men. Some studies, for example, have suggested that women with the virus die more * quickly than men, and from a somewhat different range of opportunistic infections. "Drugs are developed with incomplete data on metabolic differences between the sexes," charges Congressman Henry Waxman, a major advocate for women's health. "This is not a question of affirmative...
What is the fastest-growing group of women in the U.S.? Sadly, it may be women behind bars. The female population of American jails and prisons roughly tripled during the 1980s; in 1989 alone the number of women in lockups rose nearly 22%. And while there are still almost 17 men doing time for every female prisoner -- 663,998 men and 39,689 women in federal and state lockups at last count on Dec. 31, 1989 -- the women have been gaining (if that is the word) in that respect too. Their share of the total prison population rose from...
Most Scorsese movies are all exposition. The characters don't grow or learn, they just get found out. Same, in spades, here. So it is Scorsese's triumph that GoodFellas offers the fastest, sharpest 2 1/2-hr. ride in recent film history. He has said he wanted his picture to have the speed and info overload of a movie trailer. Two great labyrinthine tracking shots -- at a neighborhood bar and the Copacabana -- introduce, with lightning grace, about a million wise guys. Who are they? What are they doing, and who are they doing in? Just to catch all the ambient...
...wind was blowing hard and it was raining the night that Houston bureau chief Richard Woodbury arrived at Cedar Point park in Sandusky, Ohio, for a test spin in the Magnum XL-200, the world's highest (205 ft.) and fastest (72 m.p.h.) roller coaster. Since the weather was expected to worsen, park officials insisted that they crank up Magnum for a ride right away. "Suddenly the gigantic structure was ablaze with lights," recalls Woodbury. "There was no way to argue, and so, as the wind whipped off Lake Erie, I was harnessed into the front seat of a soaking...
Southern cities are growing faster than others, and Southerners move more often than people raised elsewhere. The two fastest-growing groups in the South today are Hispanics and white Yankees. As first noted in the 1980 census, more blacks are moving south than are moving north. In the 1988 presidential election, nearly 50% of those who voted in the South were born elsewhere. The South is still poor, too poor. But while some of the shine has gone out of the Sunbelt, in 1988 the Rocky Mountain States replaced the South as the region with the lowest per capita income...