Word: notes
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Nevertheless, AIDS is primarily associated with white, middle-class homosexuals, not only because of their numbers and high casualty rate but also because they are better organized and more articulate than other afflicted groups. It is somewhat patronizing to note that from Sappho to Capote, homosexuals have enriched Western literature. Today AIDS has put gay writers in the vortex of journalism...
...what of Ronald Reagan, a President normally so lavish in his displays of heartfelt sentiment? On that somber Sunday, July 3, Reagan dispatched a formal five-paragraph note to Iran expressing "deep regret." The President told aides he considered this an apology that satisfied the nation's obligations, but his public comments were measured in the extreme. Reagan allowed that the shooting down of the Iranian airbus was a "great tragedy," but soon belittled even that cliched description by also calling it an "understandable accident...
...that were not enough, Gorbachev repeatedly interrupted other delegates as they spoke, usually to endorse their pro-reform assertions. The General Secretary even provided some moments of comic relief. After Politburo Member Alexander Yakovlev read a note asking delegates to refrain from delivering self-serving accounts of local party activities, Gorbachev leaned back in his chair and deadpanned, "That has the support of the conference, right...
Joseph Schultz and part of the staff from his Santa Cruz restaurant India Joze brought a stylishly funky note to the surroundings with their futuramic booth and black tank tops, to say nothing of Schultz's battered, Indiana Jones-type fedora. Schultz describes himself as a culinary anthropologist. He has traveled the world gathering recipes and evaluating food customs, most especially in Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Greece. His lacy, crisp, fried calamari tentacles in skordalia, the Greek garlic-and-walnut sauce, sold at a great rate, as did the chili-spiced Thai marinated squid. "I have lots of other...
Other scientists note that global climate moves in broad historical cycles of warming and cooling tens of thousands of years long. Astronomical cycles, volcanoes, the interplay of deserts, oceans, cloud cover, even the methane produced by termites, can affect the density of the atmospheric greenhouse. Declares Chester Ropelewski, a climate specialist with the Maryland-based Climate Analysis Center: "It's still not clear whether this is the CO2 signal. The hard evidence isn't there...