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If it is to recover, Africa in the coming years will need all its mystical powers of resilience. AIDS is devastating the continent's population. It has hit as hard among the cosmopolitan, educated elite as among the villagers, a fact that threatens continuing development. If the rate of infection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: the Scramble for Survival | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

The Ik were as hideous as family values can get. Adults would sit around the $ fire and think it was uproarious when a baby toddled toward the flames. Children would excavate food from the mouths of weakened grandparents and run away laughing. A wife would die by the roadside, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Values | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

The eggs she will lay a few days later -- from half a dozen to upwards of 300, depending on her species and the richness of her blood meal -- turn into larvae, which lead a complete aquatic life of their own and are as different from flying mosquitoes as seals are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer's Bloodsuckers | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

Violence is on TV and in the movies; does it really have to be in the mouths of babes" Kids compete in academic, athletic and social environments; does competition need to extend to the candy counter? Does an overly-sensitive tongue really make you a nerd?

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: We're in for Some Nasty Candies | 7/28/1992 | See Source »

The recent stroyline about art and whether it should by produced for its sales value or for its own sake was quite entertaining. Hobbes, the idealist made a lovely clay tiger. Calvin the cynic, took his play-doh and produced a hundred shrunken heads of popular cartoon characters" and "stitched...

Author: By Jonathan A. Bresman, | Title: What the Heck is This Dilbert? A Neophyte's Guide to the Funnies | 7/10/1992 | See Source »

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