Word: modern
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...Africa is that it primarily affects heterosexuals, striking down men and women in equal numbers. "Many of us are very alarmed by what we are seeing in Africa," says Dr. Thomas Quinn, an infectious-disease expert at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. In the West, modern medical facilities, blood- screening equipment and speedy communications may keep AIDS under control. But Africa is on the front line of what some researchers are already calling an AIDS pandemic. The African experience suggests the dangers and tenacity of AIDS: how thoroughly it can infect a heterosexual population, how difficult...
...Fifties was at least as rotten as any other decade, what with McCarthyism, segregation, the Cold War, the universal conservatism and intolerance. But modern Fifties nostalgia, generated by people who were children back then, is a peculiar kind of tunnel vision that never notices such nastiness. America was complacent and happy, a superpower without a rival in any sphere, and the meaning of life could be easily fit into a popular song with room for doo-wops and a chorus. What a time it was. No wonder we can't seem to get enough...
Understanding the structure of surfaces and interfaces "is relevant to the knowledge one needs to develop a cutting edge in modern technology," said Henry Ehrenreich, Clowes professor of science and director of the materials research...
...Modern man, however, suffers from anomie. He is alienated. In short, he is unhappy. His tenet of faith is that what you see is all there is. He lives his life accordingly...
...without love may be an empty experience, but that as far as empty experiences go, it's in the top five. He may be right. But the question we need to answer is whether a life filled with empty experiences is a life empty of meaning. And whether modern man, in his preoccupation with safe sex, has begun to resemble Nietzsche's last...