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...from 4.9% of the population to 6.5%. Though the disease has traditionally been seen in grayer age groups--those 45 or older--the greatest increase appears to be occurring among 30- to 39-year-olds, who have seen a stunning 70% jump. Among racial groups, Hispanics were hit hardest of all, with a 38% increase. Whites came in next at 29%, and African Americans were last at 26%. "If that were to happen in a disease like tuberculosis, syphilis or AIDS, I think there would be a public outcry, and understandably," says Dr. Frank Vinicor, director of the Centers...
...chart titled "The Poor Give the Hardest," which appeared with your report on the New Philanthropists [SOCIETY, July 24], misinterpreted the Independent Sector's most recent figures from a 1999 survey on giving and volunteering in the U.S. The data in the chart represent the average percentage of income only for those households that made contributions in 1998, not the average percentage contributed by all households in the U.S. at those income levels. SUSAN K.E. SAXON-HARROLD VICE PRESIDENT, RESEARCH Independent Sector Washington...
...week for tyrants everywhere, what with Wednesday's reported decision by Chile's high court to strip General Augusto Pinochet of his self-authored immunity from human rights prosecutions, followed by Thursday's indictment of former Indonesian strongman Suharto on corruption charges. Retirement, it seems, is the hardest part of despotism...
Thabo Mbeki has one of the hardest jobs in world politics: following Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa. He has to make good on the promise of liberation, even as many of the country's postapartheid hopes are collapsing amid low economic growth, soaring unemployment and a crime wave that is tearing at the social order. As the leader of Africa's economic and military powerhouse, Mbeki is also expected to play regional statesman and peacemaker, and to lead an aggressive campaign against the AIDS epidemic ravaging the continent...
...that in my home, the TV had become like wallpaper. One of our three sets was on virtually all the time. So five weeks ago, I decided to try a modified Ellerbee--pulling the plug without tossing the set. My daughter smugly (and correctly) predicted the loss would be hardest on me. Those first few evenings without the tube seemed to last forever. But we've been reading more, playing cards and going out for ice cream after dinner. As I write this, the kid is in the other room teaching herself to play the piano...