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...matter of medical concern. Bisexual men who practice unsafe sex with male and female partners may help speed the spread of HIV through the heterosexual community. "Up until the time of AIDS, the term bisexual was hardly even used," says anthropologist Carmen Dora Guimaraes of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, "but with the spread of AIDS, we are now trying to flush out this enigmatic character...
However limited its accomplishments, last month's Earth Summit in Rio signified the participants' acceptance of what Maurice Strong, the main impresario of the event, called "the transcending sovereignty of nature": since the by-products of industrial civilization cross borders, so must the authority to deal with them...
...think the Earth Summit in Rio had a big impact on him too. He wanted America to be a leader in these areas, and he found our country dragging its feet. He saw the Germans and Japanese down there just eating our lunch, selling environmental technology and environmental cleanup stuff all around the world. I think that really may have been something that made him even more determined to entertain this partnership...
What harm man can do, nature can undo -- at least for a while. While the alumni of the Rio environment conference undertake complex schemes to combat global warming, scientists are finding that Mother Nature is quietly applying her own highly efficient methods...
...political needs or principles are compatible. Sometimes, as at the Rio summit, one has to be compromised for the sake of the other. But it appears that whichever Bush chooses, attention is focused only on the compromise, not on the principle he was trying to defend. Even if the kind of leadership we want is nothing but "leading the people where they want to go," we make this impossible by wanting, on principle, to go in the opposite direction whenever someone tries to lead...