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...colony's enormous prosperity. The little taste of participatory government that Patten has brought to Hong Kong cannot nourish a democratic culture in the face of a takeover by a country that is neither democratic nor free; without the British model in place, Hong Kong may even find its long-held freedoms eroding, if only from neglect...
...strategies of media kingpins are as fickle as a hemline length. For most of this year, Turner angled desperately to buy a TV network, first nbc in January and cbs until only a few weeks ago. Levin, for his part, had been talking of unloading the company's long-held 19% stake in tbs in order to pay down debt. The game changed when Disney and Cap Cities eloped, raising the ardor and insecurity of moguls everywhere...
...moving into good jobs. The bad news: most continue to earn less than whites. Worse, African-American children are nearly three times as likely to be poor as whites. The Census Bureau delivered the verdicts today through a pair of comprehensive studies of the U.S. black population, underscoring long-held concerns that poverty and other economic stumbling blocks continue to disproportionately affect African-Americans. At a press conference, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown focused on one galling finding: that 46 percent of black children lived in poverty in 1993, compared with 17 percent of white children. "This information provides further evidence...
...moving into good jobs. The bad news: most continue to earn less than whites. Worse, African-American children are nearly three times as likely to be poor as whites. The Census Bureau delivered the verdicts today through a pair of comprehensive studies of the U.S. black population, underscoring long-held concerns that poverty and other economic stumbling blocks continue to disproportionately affect African-Americans. At a press conference, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown focused on one galling finding: that 46 percent of black children lived in poverty in 1993, compared with 17 percent of white children. "This information provides further evidence...
...reports in the British journal Nature overturned some long-held notions of , how AIDS progresses, thereby sparking a flurry of enthusiasm from usually frustrated researchers. Instead of a slow-motion war of attrition, scientists now believe that HIV and the patient's immune system fight pitched battles from the start, with both sides sustaining enormous losses. The studies help explain why previous drug therapies have proved to be ineffective, but also suggest new strategies -- a multiple-drug attack against the virus early in the course of the disease, for instance -- that could hold the disease at bay and maybe even...