Word: subs
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Prevention is one argument for treatment. Community stability is another. Half of the infected in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and AIDS will leave millions of children parentless. Even if the drugs that are available can only preserve life by 10-15 years, those years are critical if communities are to survive. And beyond either of these arguments is a basic humanitarian obligation. With effective life-extending AIDS drugs available at prices below $1,000 a year, allowing millions to perish would be a monstrous sin of omission...
...short term after succeeding stroke-felled Keizo Obuchi, Mori has been a spectacularly tone-deaf politician even for Japan's doddering ruling elite. This is a man who decided to finish his round of golf after being told of the Greeneville sub disaster - and no one was particularly surprised. For the past decade, Japan's slow slide and slower internal response have been marginally better cause in the U.S. for schadenfreude than sympathy. But feeling superior is one thing; getting dragged into the tar pit of global depression by the industrialized world's most stubbornly ineffectual government is quite another...
...says her brother Fang Jue?who called for direct elections in 1997 and is serving a four-year term on murky charges of illegal business dealings?has suffered frostbite while in solitary confinement where he has spent much of the winter sleeping on the bare cement of his sub-freezing cell. Guards denied her request to bring him a blanket. "I was so angry but felt so powerless," says Liu, a ticket seller in a Beijing park for the past 20 years. In their letter the two invited i.o.c. members to meet them personally for "a true and complete inspection...
...been said that we were reluctant to render assistance [by opening the hatches to take on survivors]. But with the swell and the surge at the edge of the submarine, we would have overturned the lifeboats. The sub was like a seawall. That is why we waited for the Coast Guard to arrive. Twenty-six were saved by the Coast Guard, but when the captain said nine more were still missing, it was as if my heart had been ripped out of my chest...
...Waller: Well, for example, the digital display indicator was broken. That's a digital screen that shows the sub's executive officer and captain the same sonar picture that the guys in the sonar shack are looking at. Having that screen broken was obviously not helpful. Then, down in the sonar shack, there should have been three or four sonar technicians as well as a supervisor keeping an eye on things. But that day on the Greeneville, there were only two technicians...