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...wait, the harder it will be to eliminate AIDS and the larger the number of people who will die before their time. We have the money and resources to find a solution, but we lack the willpower. We must not leave this problem for the next generation to inherit. Daniel Greenhalgh Stavanger, Norway Forget about Bill Gates' billions or AIDS-awareness programs or new drugs. Loose morals and poor foresight can allow AIDS to spread out of control. No amount of financial or social support can alter this. Only a change of heart by individuals and modified behavior can save...
...state viewers will laugh or be offended, but at least NBC has made a sitcom about people who don't drink merlot in penthouses. (Whereas Four Kings, a midseason sitcom with Seth Green, sounds like a parody of a derivative NBC sitcom concept: four single young guys inherit a huge Manhattan apartment. Is one of them a paleontologist...
...elected, Garcia will inherit daunting domestic challenges. Many of Peru's 19.2 million people live in appalling poverty, with an average per capita annual income of only $867. In the Andes, the army is at war with Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a guerrilla group that advocates a Maoist-style revolution. Be cause of fears of terrorism, 105,000 army troops and police were placed on alert on election day. A dynamite blast, blamed by police on guerrillas in the central Andes city of Huancayo, killed two children and wounded four other people. But a call by Sendero Luminoso to boycott...
...selling its stake in PetroChina, “Harvard has divested from the most culpable company by far, slated to inherit all of CNPC’s southern Sudanese oil assets,” said Eric Reeves, a Smith College professor and outspoken critic of the Sudanese regime...
...second major problem arising from the fact that workers do not own the money they pay in payroll taxes is that their heirs cannot inherit their accumulated retirement savings. Upon the death of the worker, no matter how much or how little the worker has paid in taxes or collected in benefits, the money he or she paid into Social Security disappears. None is passed on to his or her children or grandchildren...