Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then there is Africa, across much of which the disease continues to rage unchecked. Already the sub-Saharan region accounts for more than 60% of people living with HIV worldwide, or some 14 million men, women and children. As many people will die there this year from the disease as were massacred two years ago in the Rwandan holocaust. The social consequences of this die-off are catastrophic. By the year 2000, nearly 2 million children in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia will have lost their parents to the disease...
...residents of the region and soldiers from other nations reporting similar ills...
...proper pedigree. C.H., as he is widely known, is the scion of a major Asian shipping dynasty, and was educated at Britain's University of Liverpool and schooled in business on the job in the U.S. He's on a first-name basis with the Asia-Pacific region's political and business leaders, as well as many of those in the U.S., where he co-chairs the U.S.-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Committee with former U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker. More important, his family bridges the chasms separating the communist mainland from capitalist Hong Kong and a defiant...
...Louis died in 1972, they had been separated for three years--in part because of his philandering. Returning in 1978 to a site in Tanzania called Laetoli, Mary made what she considered the discovery of a lifetime: the unmistakable footprints of a human ancestor, possibly Australopithecus afarensis, in the region's 3.6 million-year-old volcanic ash. Not only were these hominids walking upright--rather than on all fours as apes do--but they were doing it much earlier than nearly everyone supposed and without the big brains long considered necessary for bipedalism...
...generally acted as consultants, generating ideas and designs," said designer Steven Pierce, a second year student at the Business School. "Yahoo has traditionally been a directory that provides links, but the local guides are more tailored to a specific region. We helped develop that unique angle...