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...Bethesda, Maryland, who made it grow in the lab, which allowed for the development of an antibody test. It was the National Institutes of Health that funded the basic research on HIV and AIDS. It was the big drug companies like Burroughs Wellcome and Merck that brought a growing list of anti-HIV drugs to market...
...four has lost both her job as a midwife and her home. Today she barely earns enough to keep her children alive and cover her $12 monthly rent on a tin-roof shack in one of Nairobi's most fetid slums. Treating her illness is low on her list of priorities. In a good week, when she gets paid to give talks about AIDS to employees of the local railway company, she manages to scrimp enough to buy a palliative for her recurrent diarrhea or a dose of the latest herbal AIDS "cure." But even those she considers luxuries...
Three hours after the seizure, communications were established and the insurgents gradually began releasing some 300 women and elderly people (including Fujimori's mother and sister). In phone calls to local television and radio stations, the rebels then issued a list of demands. Among them: safe passage to a haven in the Amazon jungle and release of about 450 comrades being held in various jails, where conditions are so harsh that prisoners are said to be trapping rats to feed themselves...
Warning to the stars: making movies may be bad for your passport. According to a Tibetan advocacy group, such names as BRAD PITT, HARRISON FORD and Martin Scorsese are on a persona non grata list at the agency that handles visas for Chinese-occupied Tibet. Scorsese is directing Kundun, a movie about the Dalai Lama, written by Ford's wife Melissa Mathison. Pitt is currently making Seven Years in Tibet. Two sources told the International Campaign for Tibet that they saw the list on a wall at a Chinese Information Travel Service office in Lhasa. "It was in a back...
...paintbrush last month and left with an outfit for her 16-month-old niece and a renewed faith in the retailer that has since brought her back twice for Christmas gifts. "The clothes, especially for children, have amazed me," says Stowe, 47, a retailer's dream with a list that includes a grandchild and 26 nieces and nephews. "I used to get so frustrated with Sears. They would advertise items and then not have them when I'd go in. Why should I go to a place and waste my time if they don't have what I want...