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6 | Bolivia A COUNTRY REBORN Although the South American nation has seen many constitutions--17 since it was founded in 1825--the latest incarnation received more than 60% approval at the polls, the first time a Bolivian constitution has been up for a national vote. The document promotes equality for...
But the sequel has proved bigger, longer and immeasurably more complicated. The fighting is now in its 15th year. According to the International Rescue Committee, it has claimed the lives of 5.4 million people, mostly through the disease and malnutrition that have accompanied it. In 1998, the war sucked six...
? In the early '80s, when HIV was still a mysterious killer in San Francisco, Martin Delaney, 63, an advocate for AIDS patients, made smuggling runs to Mexico to secure medicines said to strengthen the immune system. Delaney later founded the organization Project Inform to raise awareness of HIV and...
The ticktock of farm auctions and foreclosures in the heartland, punctuated by the occasional suicide, has seldom let up since the 1980s. But one of the malaise's most excruciating aspects is regularly overlooked: rural pastors are disappearing even faster than the general population, leaving graying congregations helpless in their...
She had an image issue right from the beginning. "No mother is going to buy her daughter a doll with breasts," Ruth Handler's husband and business partner Elliot insisted. Her other male colleagues at Mattel, the company she founded, concurred. But Handler, a 5-ft. 2-in. (1.6 m...