Word: tac
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...superfreaky? Gadgetmakers made them smaller, cheaper, simpler and sexier. Case in point: Sony's new Cybershot U DSC-U10 ($200) is just 4 in. long and weighs a mere 4 oz., and it's finished in a delicious pearlescent white--you want to pop it like a Tic Tac. It's great for taking snapshots and pix for the Web, but if you want some-thing more high powered, try Casio's Exilim EX-S2 ($300), available later this month. It's the size of a credit card and almost as thin, but it has digital zoom and 2-megapixel...
...this regular scholastic observation of moments of silence that is partially responsible for the profanation of memorial moments of silence. If you fashion spitballs or play covert games of solitaire tic-tac-toe during most moments of silence, it is difficult to muster deeply-felt feelings for exceptional ones. You are desensitized to whatever symbolic weight a moment of silence might once have...
...faced, and lost, a major challenge to its policy. The country's leading AIDS activist movement, the Treatment Action Campaign, secured a High Court order compelling the Health Ministry to make nevirapine available at all public hospitals and clinics. The government appealed against the judgement, but last month the TAC renewed its pressure, suing to make the government allow all state doctors to prescribe neviraprine where necessary...
...same time the AIDS rebels hit on another front. The tac's chairman, Zackie Achmat, went to Brazil to obtain a consignment of cheap, generic antiretroviral drugs for a program of treatment of 85 HIV/AIDS victims, adults and children, in the black township of Khayelitsha, outside of Cape Town. Achmat's shopping trip to Brazil was in open defiance of South Africa's patents law. "Potentially we face a civil action from the drugs companies," said Achmat last week. "We'll just have to wait and see." But public opinion is so firmly behind the activists that drugmakers in South...
...after meeting with government health officials in the provinces, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang last week said more research was needed on the effectiveness of antiretrovirals and promised no change in the national mother-to-child pilot program which, the TAC says, reaches less than 10% of infected pregnant women...