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...Nkosi Johnson died a hero in the battle against AIDS in Africa, but he was not a martyr. Martyrs are those who choose death in pursuit or in defense of their beliefs, but 12-year-old Nkosi did not choose death. Death chose him, even before he was born HIV-positive to a mother who died of AIDS before his third birthday. Back then, his adoptive mother Gail Johnson was told Nkosi had nine months to live, but he went on to be South Africa's longest surviving AIDS orphan. But it was not only his longevity that made Nkosi...
...AIDS treatment drugs. But even at the discount prices offered by manufacturers in India, the government of the cash-strapped African nation remains reluctant to invest the billions of dollars required to keep a burgeoning AIDS population alive. By inspiring them with his life and struggle to survive, Nkosi Johnson's dying has served as an indictment, not only of the South African authorities but of all the governments and corporations with the means to make a difference: The 12-year-old's death, after all, was preventable. But keeping Nkosi, and millions like him, alive and well...
...handful of these boys, sentenced in more lenient states, will be released during the next five to seven years. Trickey's continued detention is reviewed every six months, and he will certainly go free by the time he turns 19. Cordova gets out at age 21. So do Johnson and Golden...
...Houston, the nation's energy capital and home to the oil-baron excesses of the 1980s, is back in "bidness." The energy giants in Texas have big fat wallets these days--and even bigger construction plans. Not since the boom days of 1982, when trophy architects like Philip Johnson and I.M. Pei reconfigured the skyline, has Houston seen so much construction activity by the energy sector...
...great historical happening and today's essentially antihistorical audience. Pearl Harbor thus spends a lot of time with Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett), boyhood pals who grow up to be hot pilots falling in love with the same woman, a Navy nurse named Evelyn Johnson (Kate Beckinsale). Rafe is first in line, but when he goes missing and is presumed dead in the Battle of Britain, Danny, who lands up at Pearl Harbor with Evelyn, fills in for him--rather too successfully. Evelyn is pregnant when Rafe comes back from the dead, just in time...