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...million People in sub-Saharan Africa living with HIV or AIDS...
...People in sub-Saharan Africa who die of AIDS each...
...group, teenagers tend to assume they're going to live forever. But not in Africa, and especially not in those countries hardest hit by AIDS. According to a new United Nations study, 15-year-olds living in sub-Saharan Africa have a fifty-fifty chance of getting infected with the AIDS virus--and dying long before their time...
...past month, divers have been clearing away 3 ft. of sediment from on top of the 40-ft.-long sub and dredging an excavation trench around it. Although tilted on its starboard side, the Hunley appears largely intact except for a 3-ft. hole in its riveted iron hull. Because both hatches were sealed, it probably still holds the skeletons of its captain and eight-man crew. Once recovered, the sub will be barged upriver to a conservation facility, there to be reimmersed in cold water, chemically stabilized, excavated and restored--which could take up to 10 years...
Built in Mobile, Ala., the Hunley was the third sub financed by a group of wealthy Louisiana businessmen who had ties to the Confederate secret service. Their first was intentionally scuttled when New Orleans fell to Union forces in 1861. Their second sank in rough seas off Mobile in February 1863. The Hunley, completed in July 1863, was dispatched to Charleston, where it sank twice on earlier trips, killing 13 men, including one of its sponsors, Horace L. Hunley, for whom it was named. It was nicknamed the "Peripatetic Coffin," a fitting name, as it was only 4 ft. wide...