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...bitter truth: the new combination therapies are of little use to 90% of the people suffering from the disease. In Africa, India, Thailand and to a growing extent Central and Eastern Europe, the treatment's price tag of up to $20,000 a year puts it way beyond the grasp of all but the superrich. "With this discovery, the AIDS gap only becomes wider," laments Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the U.N.'s AIDS program. To most AIDS researchers, it has become painfully obvious that drugs of any kind, no matter how effective, are not the solution...
...Pride and Prejudice (A&E) Having arrived just when it seemed Austen-mania could be borne no longer, this lush production radiantly revived the rage for Jane. With perfectly observed sets and a keen grasp of the subversive social themes that underlie Austen's comedy, this mini-series put its competition to shame. PBS' Moll Flanders...
...than her muscular instincts and ability to talk like the popular professor she once was. When he was trying to make up his mind whom to choose, he kept recalling a conversation with Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, who lobbied hard for Albright. A lot of diplomats may grasp the complexities of Bosnia, she told the President, but only Albright could explain why we were there in a way that Mikulski's late mother the grocer could understand...
...Elect Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said most campaigns involve partisan disputes. But members of Congress need to have a more substantive grasp of the day's vital issues, she said...
...postured and smiled his dimpled smile. Others tried to ignore it--like Colonel General Alfred Jodl, who, contrary to rules, hid his head at night under the blankets in his cell...Beyond the unhappy realization of having been on the losing side of a war, they could not quite grasp the meaning of the court's quiet, determined fairness, or of the hardworking prosecution's meticulous attention to detail. The Nazis had never done things that...