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...message that humans are most often inadvertent victims rather than targeted prey. In three photos, the shark appears as the aggressive killer the fearful public has always imagined. You should have chosen photographs that better depicted the misunderstood fish you wrote about. In this case, the pictures negated your thousand words. ADAM WYSE Delaware, Ohio...
Thanks in no small part to Fauci's prodigious efforts, AIDS deaths in the U.S. have dropped from 50,610 in 1995 to 16,273 in 1999. But the situation is still critical. Forty thousand new AIDS cases are reported annually in the U.S., and new findings at NIAID have shown that even after extended treatment with the strongest antiviral drugs, infected patients still harbor reservoirs where the AIDS virus replicates persistently...
When one thinks of love, especially theatrical love, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet inevitably comes to mind. For five hundred years, company after company has put up this classic tale of star-crossed lovers; it has been copied, adapted, and updated a thousand times...
...Yeltsin was not only brave; he was very lucky. The world's media focused on the crowds outside the Russian White House, where he was holed up. The atmosphere there was indeed inspiring -thousands of people prepared to shield with their bodies their last hope for change. Yet these many thousand people were a tiny fraction of the city's population, And there were few such demonstrations in other cities and towns across the USSR. Most people were sitting and waiting. Would the military have moved against the White House if someone had given the order? Some would have...
...will be a shame, and an opportunity wasted. Memory has a richly self-stimulating dynamic. You remember one detail - an image from long ago, or, quite often, a smell (smell and song being extraordinary stimuli to memory), and soon those images or smells or lyrics breed a thousand more, and an entire world comes flooding back. The lost world reassembles itself as story...