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...against the AIDS virus. As in other countries hit by HIV, the epidemic in China began in the margins of society?among migrant workers, drug users and prostitutes?and then gradually entered the mainstream population. In China this process was facilitated by the government, which, through the tragic mismanagement of its blood-buying program in the early 1990s, permitted blood-collecting practices that ended up contaminating the country's blood supply with HIV. Anyone who gave blood or received a transfusion during that period was at high risk of contracting the virus?and then passing...
...Garnett, have opted to skip the Olympics. Brown concedes that he's disappointed about such no-shows. "But it's not their fault," he told TIME shortly before marching in Detroit's victory parade. "Some guys have serious concerns about security. Others have family issues. Kobe's in a tragic situation." The Olympic basketball team can improve its chances of grabbing the gold if it plays hard defense, runs the floor and shares the ball. In other words, America should start acting more like Detroit...
...Lakshya (which roughly translates as "aim" or "focus") follows an urban slacker (Hrithik Roshan) who joins the Indian army on a whim and winds up finding heroic purpose fighting Pakistani troops who crossed into Indian-controlled Kashmir in 1999. The tragic context of a conflict that has cost up to 70,000 lives offers ample opportunity for that staple of Bollywood film: copious melodrama. Akhtar isn't so radical as to depart from such essential ingredients of the genre: song and dance, boy meets girl, and plenty of tears are all there. But everything is deftly updated. In the first...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard rarely misses an opportunity to comment on his greatest passion: cricket. An obsessive fan of the game?Australians call him a "cricket tragic"?it surprised few to hear that Howard holds an opinion on an issue that is the talk of the international cricket fraternity: Is Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan, a slow bowler with the uncommon ability to spin a ball like a top, a "chucker"? Howard didn't hesitate: "Yes," he told supporters at a political function in rural Australia last month. Howard had, in effect, labeled the most successful bowler in cricket...
Although Christianity is a focal point in my life, I do not possess a red phone to the Almighty, and neither does Bush. It is tragic that his simplistic way of thinking does not allow for doubt or reflection and precludes the consideration of religious and cultural values that clash with his personal world view. ANN HARGROVE Leesburg...