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OLDER AIDS Since 1991, AIDS cases among those 50 and older have risen twice as fast as in younger adults. The problem may be that they don't view themselves as at risk...
...Standard & Poor's 500, including dividends, rose 33.4% last year, 23.1% the year before and 37.4% the year before that, according to research firm Ibbotson Associates. This is the first time that the index has risen more than 20% in three successive years, and is the best three-year run ever. The index rose in each of the past seven years--not a first, but rare. And in that seven years it dipped as much as 10% only once, a record. The amazing run has prompted millions to stake their retirement on the bull market and by now has convinced...
Nowhere worse than in Mexico City. Crime in the capital has risen a staggering 30% or more for each of the past three years. Just one small district, Iztapalapa, saw 154 murders in 1997. Worse, a study has found that 90% of the city's crimes go unpunished, probably because police are committing so many of them. Just days after he took office last month promising to clean up the constabulary, Mexico City's first-ever elected mayor, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano of the left-center Democratic Revolution Party, had to dump his newly appointed investigative police chief because...
...quantity of cars has risen, the nature of the problem has changed qualitatively as well. Maybe the congestion is making everyone cranky. Americans are famously attached to their cars; it's just the driving they can't stand. "Driving and habitual road rage have become virtually inseparable," says Leon James, a professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii who specializes in the phenomenon. In the most comprehensive national survey on driving behavior so far, a Michigan firm, EPIC-MRA, found that an astounding 80% of drivers are angry most or all of the time while driving. Simple traffic congestion...
...matters). The Holnists are led by one General Bethlehem (Will Patton), a ruthless former copy machine sales clerk who found his true calling in fascist leadership after nuclear war vaporized society. Because he knows five or six lines of Shakespeare and can paint a passable self-portrait, he has risen to power in a world of idiots (remember, these are the same people who think Costner's mumbling Postman is brilliant). Patton is a serviceable villain, but there's nothing about his "mad cowboy" shtick that Jack Palance didn't master 40 years...