Word: surround
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...that was before the results started coming in from a group of long-term health studies of 10,000 gay men, begun in the late 1970s to mid-1980s. Scientists, prodded by AIDS activists who wanted to "study the healthy" and to lift the shadows of doom that surround the disease, have now documented at least 70 cases like Anderson's. Researchers are also beginning to find similarly healthy, long-lived survivors among women and children with HIV. There is now good reason to hope that at least 5% of the estimated 1 million Americans infected with the virus...
...Health and director of the Indochinese Psychiatry Clinic at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton, Massachusetts. He and his colleagues have worked with some 3,500 refugees, half of them Cambodians. The subjective meaning of rape in war, Mollica suggests, is created by the historical and cultural traditions that surround the deed. "Every society and subculture has a different way of dealing with rape," he says. In some societies the taint of rape is indelible and toxic. In Indochina, as in many areas with traditional societies, rape means the loss of a woman's sexual purity, the highest gift...
...passageways lead to another harsh stone room with gray video monitors on which scenes of horror are narrated by offstage voices. German soldiers surround a hospital and throw newborn babies out of the upper windows. Men and women stripped of even artificial limbs go to the gas chamber while an avuncular SS colonel insists they will not be harmed. At the exit, the backlighted words of Simon Wiesenthal offer the museum's justification for re- creating such pain: ONLY KNOW THAT HOPE LIVES WHEN PEOPLE REMEMBER...
Captain Tyler Rullman, the Ivy League's leading scorer at 22.4 points per game, is the only player who can consistently conquer the mysterious rifts in the space-time continuum that surround the Harvard basket these days...
...Clinton shows scant need to surround himself with yes-men and -women. Panetta has been skeptical about the President-elect's oft promised middle-class tax cut, and Rivlin departs from Clinton orthodoxy with her suggestion that states should run public-works programs. Perhaps this will be a combative Administration after all. (See related story on page...