Word: onely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have learned to replace their studied sullenness of old with the occasional smile, but West Germans and others still must file through cattle-chute-like passport control points, and are made to exchange 25 deutsche marks ($13.50) for East German marks, at the usurious rate of 1 to 1, one-tenth the black market quote, for every day they spend in the German Democratic Republic. In the evenings, the smell of coal smoke hangs over gray, dilapidated cities -- as it did in the bitter days right after World...
...theologians, church officials, health workers and top-flight scientists gathered in Rome for the first Vatican meeting on AIDS. But the script was quickly ripped up as the three-day conference was disrupted by a sign-wielding protester, dissident caucuses and angry charges and countercharges. At one point the conference's organizer, Archbishop Fiorenzo Angelini, had a tense confrontation with an AIDS victim who had sought to speak to the group...
...conference's trouble began after the sponsoring Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers refused to allow a speech by militant Peter Larkin of England, one of several AIDS sufferers who were invited by the Vatican. Frustrated by the council's tight control of the agenda, some 50 dissidents accused it of hindering open discussions, then set up their own lunch-hour conference. On the sidelines, some medical professionals defended the use of condoms; others accused the church of homophobia. John White, a priest who contracted the virus while in Kenya and now runs an AIDS treatment center...
...anti-Semitism that has always been just below the surface and, in the current, more permissive climate, can come poking through," says Charles Gati, an expert on Eastern Europe at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Gati has found thinly disguised Jew baiting back in fashion in his native Hungary. One of the top-ranked soccer teams, MTK, was heavily financed by Jews in the 1930s before more than half of the Jewish community was murdered by the Nazis and their Hungarian offshoot, the Arrow Cross Party. Now, half a century later, the historical association lingers: when the team runs onto...
...nucleus. Eggs that are not defective can then be selected and used in an increasingly common procedure known as in vitro fertilization. This involves placing the eggs in a soup of sperm and implanting resulting embryos in the mother's womb. The main difficulty is that only one in ten tries results in a birth. Yet the success rate may improve, and prefertilization diagnosis could someday be used to intercept defective genes that cause such diseases as Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis and thalassemia...