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Squalid conditions, poverty and a semitropical environment may also play a role in the high rate of AIDS in Haiti and, oddly enough, in parts of southeastern Florida. Belle Glade (pop. 19,000), Fla., with 46 cases, has the highest incidence in the U.S. "There is raw sewage on the ground and rats running all around," says Dr. Mark Whiteside of Miami's Tropical Medicine Clinic. Filth, insects and a high rate of tuberculosis, he suggests, might contribute to the epidemic...
Until last year, Keillor wrote almost the entire show, parody songs, phony commercials and all. Now Writer Howard Mohr pitches in on the Raw Bits and the Minnesota Language Systems ads, which peddle cassettes that teach visitors to answer "You bet" for approval, and "That's different" for confusion or doubt, like real Minnesot'ns. But the wondrous, spooky monologues that carry the show are Keillor's. He works without a net. On Wednesday or Thursday he will have started to think seriously about the piece, and by Saturday, most weeks, he will have written out a fairly complete narrative...
...this holocaust different from all other holocausts? In raw nightmare numbers, the Nazi extermination of 6 million European Jews ranks below the Soviet Union's systematic starvation of the rebellious Ukraine in 1932-33 (10 million by Stalin's count) and Mao's catastrophic Great Leap Forward into prolonged famine in 1957-62 (at least 27 million). Uganda and Kampuchea have produced more recent evidence that Hitler's policy of mass murder as an instrument of statecraft was not unique. Yet the Final Solution remains the archetype of man's bestiality to man, and there are compelling reasons for this...
...approaching holiday season holds little joy for thousands of employees and executives in the semiconductor industry. This year major makers of the tiny electronic wafers, which are the raw material of the high-technology age and run everything from watches to supercomputers, are playing the role of the Grinch. They will shut their doors for up to three weeks next month, a time when workers normally expect year-end bonuses and office celebrations. The painful closings are only the latest steps that chip producers are taking to cope with a slump that has crippled the once booming high-tech industry...
...even while realizing that by Yankee lights a 9-2 blowout is a terrific way to open a season. But let's face it, the Sox played an April game. Wells looked like a 90-year-old fat guy with no evident desire to be pitching on a cold, raw night. Everyone in the lineup seemed to hit into a double-play or two. There was precious little spark in the World Champs, I felt, on the first day of their defense...