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...vehicle for Neuharth's reinvigorated ambitions is the Freedom Forum of Arlington, Va., formerly the Gannett Foundation, whose assets consisted entirely of stock donated by the communication firm's founder. Upon retirement, Neuharth retained the foundation's chairmanship. Last year he infuriated his former employers by deciding to sell all that stock -- 10% of Gannett's shares -- to the highest bidder. Reason: dividends on the Gannett stock were less than the amount the institution is required to give away...
This gap between knowledge and behavior is a major challenge facing AIDS educators, says Richard P. Keeling, chair of the American College Health Association's Task Force on AIDS in Charlottesville, Va. "I suspect any parent or teacher would point to peer pressure, or teens' sense of invulnerability," he says. But there are other important factors. A teenage girl may be too embarrassed to ask her partner to wear a condom. Or a youth might not want to buy condoms because it makes him feel guilty for having sex. Many prefer not to question their partners' sex practices...
...certificate makes him 60, and hoped his "wives would rise from the dead" even though he has married but once and his ex-wife is still living. At the U.S. Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany, where he was first taken, and in Boston where he checked into a VA hospital at midweek, Tracy remained secluded...
Joseph Daniel Casolaro believed he was on to a big story. He also thought it might be a dangerous one. Just a few weeks ago, the free-lance writer told his family in Fairfax, Va., that someone might try to kill him and make it look like an accident. On Aug. 10 he was found dead in a hotel room in Martinsburg, W. Va., where he had gone to meet an unnamed source. There were slash marks around his wrists and a note near his body. It read in part, "I'm sorry, especially to my son." The official verdict...
...investigation into Casolaro's death, local police took his body to a funeral parlor. The body was immediately embalmed -- though police had not reached his family to get permission. That only heightened his family's suspicions. "I don't think Danny was depressed," insists his brother Anthony, an Arlington, Va., physician, who says Casolaro was convinced that he had succeeded in tying the Inslaw case into "the Octopus." "My sense was that he was very excited...