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Since 1962 Mandela has lived under various banning orders restricting her activities. In 1977 she was banished from her Soweto house to Brandfort, in a remote area of the Orange Free State. When unknown arsonists fire bombed her residence there last August, Mandela blamed the government, defiantly returned to Soweto and challenged her banning restrictions in court. Following moves by some courts to invalidate banning orders recently, a government prosecutor last week announced that the state was abandoning its efforts to enforce the restrictions on Mandela. Though technically the ban had not been lifted, no attempts were made to prevent...
...been living in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and reportedly quarreling with her two Soviet-born children, seems to have had yet another change of heart. Last week the U.S. embassy in Moscow confirmed that she had visited the consular section. While the details of the visit are unknown, Svetlana is believed to have sought a visa to go West...
Unfortunately, there are many obstacles to a truly workable vaccine. Safety is one: even a genetically altered virus could conceivably cause disease. A successful vaccine would have to trigger the production of antibodies that protect the individual against AIDS; most AIDS patients have antibodies that, for some unknown reason, fail to protect them. And in light of the changeability of the AIDS virus, the vaccine would have to offer immunity against an almost infinite array of variant strains. No virus has presented vaccine makers with more formidable challenges. But given the lightning pace of discovery, says Essex, "we will likely...
Finally, I would like to inform Mr. Wise that the only annoyance caused by your writing was caused by the ignorance you displayed. The use of he or she when the sex of the person whom one is talking about is unknown doesn't bother me in the least. As a matter of fact I have used this form since early in elementary school, long before I knew that sexism existed and that the exclusive use of the "he" pronoun was a part of that. The non-sexist use of language came naturally to me. I have to think...
...unknown for the face to fall off a Reynolds portrait if it was shaken. Obsessed with technique, he was said to have scraped patches off his own Titian and Rubens, and was known to have destroyed a Watteau, in search of the "secrets" of the old masters. But his own paintings cooked themselves down to blistered wrecks, sometimes within the lifetime of the sitters. An elderly Irish rake, the Earl of Drogheda, returned to his native land after 30 years abroad, with a shattered constitution. He found that his youthful portrait by Reynolds was even more poxed, corrupt and wrinkled...