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...solution is not for liberal, Harvard-educated officers to infiltrate the military and counteract the backwardness and intolerance running rampant in the ranks. The likes of Navy Midshipman Sumner E. Anderson '92, who called homosexuality "deviant behavior" and "a disease," cast doubt on this approach...
...disease begins to run rampant through the community, gay men begin to realize that it will not provide a glamorous, Dark Victory-style degeneration. Any illness can be ugly, and so can the response to it. Amid a sickroom's strained bonhomie, Willy (Campbell Scott) tiptoes away to wash off the light kiss of an infected friend. But others find the option of heroic devotion. David, now nursemaid to the ailing Sean, covers up when Sean's boss calls, and diapers the incontinent patient. Because David is also standing a potential deathwatch on his future, his caring grace is spectacular...
...stabbing occurred in a part of the city known as Area Four, which has recently been plagued by widespread crime. Police beefed up patrols in the neighborhood recently after residents complained that drug dealing and other crimes were rampant there...
Harrison Ngau, a Kayan tribesman in Malaysian Borneo, has endured imprisonment, house arrest and government harassment over the past three years. His "crime": helping Borneo's indigenous people try to halt the rampant logging that is destroying their way of life and some of earth's most ancient tropical forests...
...Wangari Maathai took on a formidable mission: holding back Kenya's advancing desert. Rampant tree cutting and unchecked population growth have stripped much of the country's land, generating hunger and poverty. In response, Maathai organized the Green Belt Movement, a national tree-planting program run by women. "Because women here are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve," explains Maathai, 49, who was the first Kenyan woman to earn a Ph.D. (in anatomy) and the first to become a professor at the University of Nairobi...