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...come to China. The New York City--based virologist was named TIME's 1996 Person of the Year for his pioneering work on the drug therapies that have largely quelled the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. and Europe. Now Ho is confronting the AIDS virus in its most populous stronghold. Up to 1 million Chinese are HIV positive, and that number could easily grow to 10 million by 2010, according to the Joint U.N. Program on AIDS. If current trends continue for another decade or so, China could overtake Africa, where 29 million people have been infected with the virus...
Although Warp—the label that carries all of Prefuse’s releases—is a stronghold of IDM artists, Scott is quick to emphasize that his music springs from an MPC 2000 sampler/sequencer, and that he uses computers only in the production process...
...Democrats broke a 20-20 tie in the New Jersey senate, suggesting, perhaps, that the Northeast is still a Democratic stronghold. And in Philadelphia, a Republican challenge to Mayor John Street fell way short. In San Francisco, the most conservative Democrat, the sponsor of an initiative to reduce panhandlers, seemed poised to win - suggesting that Giuliani-style governance remains popular in liberal bastions. In New York City, mayor Mike Bloomberg?s effort to replace the city's primary system with the kind of non-partisan slates found in other cities got trounced. It does not bode well for his reelection...
...city of Kirkuk experienced a run of resistance fighters' nightly raids aimed at U.S. patrols and the local police who support them. U.S. and Iraqi officials fear that guerrillas from the triangle are trying to open a new front up north. Last week's violence in the Shi'ite stronghold of Baghdad's Sadr City, led by the rabble-rousing cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, may signal a surge of sectarian anger from a population that had been largely quiet...
Turkish officials tell TIME that Ankara wants to station some troops between Baghdad and the northern Kurdish stronghold of Suleimaniyah, a move that would upset Iraqi Kurds. Aware of the risk of violence such a move would pose, U.S. commanders are pushing to deploy the Turks elsewhere, between Baghdad and the Syrian border to the west. A senior Turkish official says Ankara is considering opening a new border post closer to the Syrian border where the Turkomans--a minority friendly to Ankara's interests--are prevalent, and where, they hope, Turkish troops will be able to enter Iraq safely. Winning...