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...disease originated. AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, unlike anywhere else, is a heterosexual scourge that affects men and women equally. One reason is that in some countries of the sub-Sahara men practice polygamy, while in other regions men commonly have multiple sexual partners. Moreover, the continent is rife with other sexually transmitted maladies, such as genital ulcers and lesions caused by syphilis. Such breaks in the skin make it easier for the AIDS virus to penetrate the body and enter the bloodstream. As many as 5 million Africans are thought to harbor the virus, and at least...
...Soviet regime has generated increasing hope (and hype) about reduction in military forces and superpower tension. Gorbachev offered new, "unilateral" troop and hardware cuts during his visit this week. In a century rife with devastating wars, the world's euphoria at the prospect of peace, even watchful peace, is not surprising. Armed conflict--preparing for it, waging it, and recovering from it--has been our chief preoccupation for a long time...
Movies have trod this turf once or twice before; the mid-'50s were rife with such sprawling family sagas (Giant, Written on the Wind). And it might seem as if such broad emotions, such guileless ironies, have no place in our blandly cynical age. But Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman) strides easily among movie cliches. His gift is to play them as if they're all new and all true. And this time he has a cast to lend them flesh and nuance. Quaid creates a genuine pathetic hero, first exuding charm, then marketing it. And Hutton...
Over the longer run, however, the trend toward inequality is rife with the potential for social and political conflict -- not just between classes but within the middle class. The differing prospects between its college-educated members and those who go no further than high school is one potential source of antagonism. Another is the growing cleavage between young and old. While young couples wonder if they can ever buy their dream house -- or any house -- people of their parents' generation are sitting on a gold mine. Many have paid off low-interest mortgages on houses bought a quarter-century...
...texts are indeed rife with distortions, deletions and historical venom. One book, for example, offers a bizarre assessment of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to this text, "international opinion viewed this 'crime of the century' as the deed of ultra-rightists linked to the CIA and carrying out the will of the oil magnates of Texas." Texts on Soviet history tend to celebrate triumph after triumph, from the success of the Revolution to victory in World War II to the launch of Sputnik. They gloss over Stalin's purges, the starvation of millions during the collectivization of farms...