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There were intriguing new theories and more grim statistics, puzzling observations and enlightening discoveries. "Never before in the history of medicine has so much been learned about an entirely new disease in so short a time," pronounced Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler last week at the opening session of the most comprehensive conference yet held on the fearful subject of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The AIDS conference, jointly sponsored in Atlanta by the World Health Organization and HHS, drew more than 2,000 researchers, health officials, gay activists and others from points as distant as Zaďre. As they...
...crossed him and smashed him to the ground. At Steele's count of "nine," Hearns was approximately erect, but the referee had a grace of sense. As Hagler was hoisted on a number of shoulders, Hearns was carried across the ring like a bride across the threshold by one grim man in formal dress with a boutonniere in his lapel. It was a relief to see Hearns walking even unsteadily later, though he bore scarcely a recognizable resemblance to the person who had entered the ring. His grin was continuous and worrisomely inappropriate--wider than chagrin--and his speech...
While savagery like El Verdugo's might evoke a Hollywood gangster movie, it has become a grim reality of life in some Mexican border towns. Upstart groups like the Zetas have emerged largely as a result of the Mexican government's recent crackdown on the big cartels that have long monopolized the country's $25 billion-a-year drug trade. Experts call the phenomenon "atomization": as the large Mafias decompose, more reckless "microcartels" spin off or move in. In their heyday in the 1980s and '90s, Mexico's biggest kingpins ran networks that employed thousands of people; now gangs like...
...coming to terms with death is leavened by humor—Dr. Bearing seizes all opportunities to display her own capacious wit, even mocking her deathbed scenes (“I never thought my life would be this corny”). The overall tone of the production, however, is grim; the jokes are more of a defense mechanism than the product of a genuinely insouciant attitude toward life...
...cheery 1950s-themed brunch in Currier House, complete with root beer floats, foot-long hot dogs, and a jukebox blasting “Johnny B. Goode” suddenly turned grim when the slideshow projecting vintage posters onto the dining hall wall flashed a questionable promo for Persil Detergent. “For Coloureds too!” the ad boasted, explaining in small print that it was actually, honestly, just talking about colored clothing...