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...Johanna McGeary, who wrote the cover and spent a month traveling through South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe, the hardest part was breaking through the walls of stigma and silence that surround the disease. "It was excruciating to keep asking, 'Do you know why you're sick? How did you get AIDS?' I've covered wars for a long time, and you always feel like a ghoul when you try to record the facts and emotions of someone else's tragedy. But in one way, this seemed worse, because everything seemed so hopeless. In war, you can always tell yourself that...
...Still, Johanna was struck by how many people in Africa with so little helped those with even less, and how far a few dollars can go. "You could keep an AIDS orphan in school for a year with a donation of $50, and that makes the difference between having a future and having none...
...that office and in the following hours with dietitian Jan Hangen and psychologist Johanna Sagarin, Wayne and his mom also saw there were real solutions. When Wayne told Hangen he was there "because I eat too much, I'm lazy, and I don't exercise enough," she told jokes, explained concepts by having him draw proteins and vegetables on a plate, and assured mom and son that dietary changes would need to be "slow and kind." Hangen strongly advised enlisting the support of other family members. The idea was to balance a carbohydrate (a fruit, say) with protein and unsaturated...
Lisa Beyer and senior foreign correspondent JOHANNA MCGEARY, both former Jerusalem bureau chiefs, wrote this week's cover stories. We sought interviews with both Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak, but only Barak agreed, spending 20 minutes on the phone with Beyer on Saturday. Rees and his team have been out on the streets and into the many trouble spots to bring vivid accounts of the drama now unfolding. Cairo bureau chief SCOTT MACLEOD headed for the Gaza Strip, AMANY RADWAN monitored the Egyptian government's mediation efforts, Tehran stringer AZADEH MOAVENI kept watch on the volatile Lebanese border from Beirut...
...grew up listening to a lot of hip-hop and electronic music," says Benning. Her interests meshed with the girl-punk sensibilities of Kathleen Hanna, former singer of Bikini Kill, and the 'zine writer Johanna Fateman, with whom she formed the rock group Le Tigre last year. Their February word-of-mouth-only debut in Brooklyn packed a huge loft with so many insiders that a crowd stood listening in the snow outside. "We pretty much rotate instruments," says Benning, who assembles many of Le Tigre's beats on samplers and '80s-vintage drum machines. After its tour, the band...