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...slaughter, ruin and misery, painted since the Gulf War. On the sidewalks, poor families sell their meager household goods to procure enough money to eat. In the back alleys, women offer their bodies for sale -- an extreme act of desperation in Muslim society -- and men steal cars or rob their neighbors' houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam, Still | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT BEING infected with HIV amounts to an automatic death sentence should talk to Rob Anderson. The 39-year-old San Francisco artist has beaten the odds against him by living -- no, thriving -- with the virus that causes AIDS for 14 years. At 6 ft. 2 in. and 170 lbs., Anderson has only routine medical complaints: the stuffiness of an occasional head cold or the aches and pains of a flu. His good health is not the work of some miracle drug: he has never taken AZT or any other compound to fight HIV. Incredible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Some People Immune to AIDS? | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...Rob Connolly, Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1993 All-Ivy Men's Basketball Teams | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...drugs. In the past two years the Montana widow has seen the cost of her medications soar, including a 50% jump in the price of the Voltaren tablets she takes for arthritis pain, which rose to $89.95 for a month's supply of 60 pills. "I feel like they rob me without a gun," Harris says. "When I paid the drugstore clerk, I told him, 'You know Bill Clinton's watching you, don't you?' I believe the guy will try to do something about this. I sure hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ouch! Which hurts more, the shot or the bill? | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...fervent defenders of democracy object that it would rob the citizenry of its sovereignty. If average Americans value their votes so much, why is voter turnout perennially so low? A frightening percentage of the elegible voting population treats voting as an irritating chore. Why fight to keep something that half the population won't spend five minutes doing...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Restrict Franchise to the Elite | 3/6/1993 | See Source »

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