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...only did Gilmore have to turn around a team that had just finished an abysmal 1-11 season, but he was coming into a program where the onfield losses were deepened by the loss of a beloved coach to tragic illness and eventually death...
Renan thought that Litinsky’s self-confidence would be his tragic flaw and ultimately lead to his dismissal. “He won’t win because he’s too cocky,” Renan said...
...overshadowed the rapid comeback of a second, nearly-as-deadly plague--malaria. The latest figures suggest that malaria sickened 300 million people last year and killed 3 million--most of them under age 5. (AIDS last year killed just over 3 million people.) What makes the malaria deaths particularly tragic is that malaria, unlike AIDS, can be cured...
...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...