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...experts reported that for the first time since the mid-1990s, the number of HIV infections rose, by 1%. They believe some of the climb can be traced to the fact that more and more HIV patients are living longer, thanks to a potent combination of drugs that can control the virus. Unfortunately, if survivors fail to follow prevention guidelines, they may pass HIV along to others...
...having a physician's willingness to deliver bad news without varnish or hesitation. But it is difficult to find much hard talk in his program now, apart from his plan to repeal the Bush tax cuts, which in any case pleases his Democratic-primary audience. Back in the mid-1990s, he advocated curbing the growth of Medicare and putting "Social Security back on the table." Now he says he would use the bulk of the savings from repealing the tax cuts for a huge new expansion of health care, that he could balance the budget by curbing spending, that...
...table littered with picked-over ready-to-eat meals, Tootsie Rolls and water bottles filled with tobacco juice. Heat comes from three portable radiators. The platoon's house--the hooch, as the G.I.s call it--lies within the perimeter of the Azimiya palace compound, built by Saddam in the mid-1990s for his oldest son Uday. The portion of the palace not destroyed by U.S. missiles now functions as the 2nd Battalion's Tactical Operations Center. During the summer, the troops filled the swimming pool and built a sand volleyball court on the grounds. Lieut. Colonel William Rabena, the battalion...
...According to a source close to the police investigations who has reviewed the bulk of seized JI documents, the organization's own accounting shows that some 3,000 trainees have passed through Mindanao since the mid-1990s. A recent intelligence report prepared by the Philippine military and seen by TIME estimates that 600 JI members are currently in Mindanao, scattered among at least three camps. That figure, contained in a so-called Jemaah Islamiah situationer dated Dec. 8, includes an unspecified number of Filipinos, but the bulk of trainees are believed to be Indonesians, along with some Malaysians. The report...
...dealing with young people whose home countries have been turned upside down,” said Timothy J. Colton, professor of government and director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. When showed a PBS documentary about the period of transition in Russia from the early- to mid-1990s in one of his classes, Colton said, one of the families portrayed in the film was that of a student in the class, Marina L. Levitina, who attends the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...