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...Uganda, there is “openness and not stigma” about AIDS, said Rand Stoneburner, a Cambridge professor and an authority on AIDS. And people have been willing to talk openly about who has AIDS and how not to get it, he said...
...DIED. RAND BROOKS, 84, actor best known, to his dismay, for playing Charles Hamilton, the nerdy first husband of Scarlett O'Hara who goes off to war only to die of illness in Gone With the Wind; in Santa Ynez, Calif. Brooks, who also appeared in numerous westerns and played sidekick Lucky Jenkins in the Hopalong Cassidy movies, called his role in Wind "asinine," saying, "I wanted to be more macho...
Daniel Benjamin is senior fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and Steven Simon is senior analyst at the Rand Corp. They are the authors of The Age of Sacred Terror (Random House...
That said, it isn't likely to happen. Bruce Hoffman, a Rand Corp. terrorism analyst, says that setting off a systemwide collapse with a physical attack that cuts through all the backup systems and redundancies would be technically difficult. The terrorists would need an uncommonly detailed knowledge of U.S. facilities and sophisticated engineering expertise. "Utilities are vulnerable," says Gary Seifert of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, "but not to systemwide outages, without a lot of skill...
Treatment techniques have also improved. The same issue of J.A.M.A. reported on a school-based program developed by scientists at the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif., and tested on 126 sixth-graders in two economically disadvantaged schools in East Los Angeles. After 10 sessions, students in the program, most of whom had experienced or witnessed violence involving guns or knives, had significantly fewer symptoms of PTSD than children who got no treatment...