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...face of a collapsing world. Some greet the new chaos with resignation, others with a fervent, steely passion to win what they feel their people deserve. All the entries are tinged with sadness. The week began with a hurried summit in Egypt, at which President Clinton squeezed an oral cease-fire plan from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. On Friday, wild fighting in many of the disputed areas left nine Palestinians dead and at least 80 wounded on both sides. The sadness, it seems, may be with us a while longer...
Students currently have access through the UHS pharmacy to oral contraceptives including the "morning-after pill," and their purchase can be term-billed as "pharmacy charges." It is possible that this option will be extended to cover RU-486 if it is offered...
...Oral agreements, as the saying goes, are worth about as much as the paper on which they're written. And in the case of the cease-fire agreed to at Sharm el-Sheikh Tuesday, the oral agreement was not one between Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak, but rather two separate agreements between each man and President Clinton. That leaves each side to interpret the agreement according to their own explanation of the current violence, and gives it at best a 50-50 chance of holding. Israel has ostensibly agreed to withdraw its army from the perimeter of most major Palestinian...
Ghartey-Tagoe takes special pleasure in history, which she says is her passion. She spent a semester abroad last year in Ghana, her parents' homeland, collecting oral histories about the slave trade; she may continue the work for a senior thesis in Afro-American studies...
...dangers? Earlier this month researchers at a medical conference in London torpedoed the widely publicized claim that the AIDS epidemic began in Africa with the application 40 years ago of an oral-polio vaccine made from chimpanzee tissue. Tests of remaining samples of that vaccine revealed no evidence of chimp DNA. In fact, the best hope for combatting AIDS, and perhaps Alzheimer's too, lies in vaccines now under development...