Word: lepere
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...obliged to carry special identification cards. The press would be permitted to publish the names of patients. People convicted of bringing AIDS-afflicted prostitutes into the country would be given beatings and long prison terms. Harshest of all, the government proposes building a detention camp similar to a leper colony for those with AIDS. If that should happen, health officials believe, Malaysia would become one of the few nations in the world to try fighting the disease by detaining its victims...
...movie. Burt asks this wimpy Bostonian character if he ever hunts, and the guy answers, "No, not since Bambi." There. I've saved you five bucks. I imagine I could bash the flick for a few more paragraphs, but it's no fun; it's like mocking a leper. It's got enough problems already...
...feel as if I am in a leper colony," said Margaret Moodie, a self-described "heavy smoker...
...employees being allowed to work as long as they can." At the San Francisco headquarters of Levi Strauss, the blue jeans manufacturer, an AIDS victim who was allowed to stay on the job as a supervisor declares, "I do not get the feeling here that I'm a leper...
...married years, Harry and Erica John quietly built a life around their nine children, their devotion to the Roman Catholic Church and their charitable works. Through the De Rance Foundation, which Harry started in 1946 with an inherited 46% interest in the Miller Brewing Co., they funded everything from leper colonies in Africa to antipoverty programs in hometown Milwaukee. Residing in the unpretentious suburb of Wauwatosa, the Johns cherished obscurity as a virtue commended by the 17th century Trappist monk Armand Jean De Rance, for whom Harry named the foundation. Though De Rance became the world's largest Catholic charity...