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Ever since Reagan propounded his Star Wars proposal in March of 1983 as part of a campaign to win support for his defense budget and arms-control policies, the fundamental goals and purpose of SDI have been cloaked in a protective shroud of ambiguity. Yet now, as Congress prepares to decide whether to provide increased funding, SDI is approaching a moment of truth, not because of any scientific breakthroughs or the lack of them, but because a series of changes in the turbulent political and diplomatic atmosphere makes it imperative to come to grips with what is the most important...
...pays better than factory work. And she studies the impact of specific sexual activities, explaining scientifically why, say, anal sex is so much riskier than vaginal sex. The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS is, in other words, unlike most books on HIV policy, which shroud arguments about sex and drugs in abstract, uncontroversial terms. Pisani prefers to hit the controversy head on, writing about AIDS as it affects those who are most likely to spread it. As a result, her impassioned critique of failed prevention programs and distorted aid spending is never dull, and rarely...
...SHROUD OF SECRECY...
...organizations use it as a stand-in for “competition.” Yet whatever its etymology, “comp” is essentially a euphemism for “apply to.” When out in the world at large, Harvard students prefer to shroud their doings in mystery, confounding their hometown friends with tales of the “script comp” or the “Crimson comp.” This term is unknown even at Yale. And Harvard students would prefer it to remain ambiguous. To have to admit...
With the 2006 Winter Games less than 100 days away, Valentino Castellani, president of the Torino Olympic Committee, spoke with TIME about transforming his city, best known for its famous shroud and as the birthplace of Fiat and Italian industrial design, into an international showpiece...