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...Third, legitimate religious sects are referred to by the term Orthodox, whereas the word fundamentalist has negative connotations. Obviously, this is why Orthodox Jews take offense when called fundamentalist. In their literal sense, the terms "fundamentalist" and "Orthodox" refer to very similar ideas. The word fundamentalist means someone who is very devout and believes that every word of their holy text is true. The term Orthodox refers to a religious sect of Judaism that closely follows the laws of the Torah, Both words have a very similar literal meaning. However, they have very different connotations. "Orthodox" connotes a legitimate religious...
...second Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton was a bit more modest than his first. The crowds, estimated at a quarter-million, were about a third the size of last time. The celebrations seemed a trifle more subdued. (Why not? We're all a little older now.) Yet it was no less a day befitting what Clinton called, in his 22-minute Inaugural Address, "the world's indispensable nation"--dignified when it needed to be but otherwise at ease. Inauguration Day can be the most public of public occasions. The President squares his shoulders, raises his right hand and self-consciously...
...statistics speak for themselves. For the so-called developed Western world, AIDS is primarily a disease of gay people, drug users and prostitutes and an affliction of Third World countries. It is a discriminatory disease of the politically weak. There will be no vaccine until the disease is indiscriminate, whether that concerns whom it infects or the social consequences of the infection...
...other antiviral drugs can cost up to $20,000 a year.Why don't pharmaceutical companies produce these drugs in massive quantities, as the demand is surely there? The cost would be brought down to much more reasonable figures. The whole of Africa, not to mention the rest of the Third World, is in desperate need of these antiviral cocktails. Do not forget Africa. JACQUES ALBELDAS Johannesburg...
SEOUL: For the first time, North Korea told the world just how hungry its people are, and asked for help. North's Korean Central News Agency quoted an official as admitting that because of devastating floods, the country harvested only 2.5 million tons of grain last year, barely half the grain it needs to feed its population. The plea comes as the U.N. World Food Program is preparing its third appeal in a year for the country?s aid. U.N. officials called North Korea a nation "in the throes of a life-threatening food shortage," noting that its current state...