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Those who favor a values-based approach to AIDS prevention urge some variant of Just Say No. Their argument is bolstered by several studies showing that even well-informed, well-equipped teenagers engage in high-risk sexual activity. "The strategic mistake we're making is to assume that more knowledge and greater access to condoms are going to change high-risk behavior," says Stan Weed, 48, director of the Institute for Research and Evaluation, a nonprofit laboratory in Salt Lake City. "Teens approach sex in neither a logical nor a rational...
...Commission Director Elizabeth Epstein, the city's official spokesperson on the committee, was less optimistic, saying that "the city's position has not changed one iota" from its initial opposition to Scheme Z. She said she would be hard-pressed to consent to the River Crossing or any like variant and added that she has "good reason to believe that there are better alternatives...
...billionaire rankings. Where would we be if someone did not locate us on a scale of the 250 most desirable or pestilential cities? The symptoms quiz -- Are you overdue for a heart attack? Are you an ordinary boozehound or a helpless alcoholic? -- is a variant of listomania. And what should attract more attention than a list of the symptoms displayed by an unfaithful spouse...
...infancy, virtual reality has attracted an extraordinary amount of media attention. The technology has been featured on ABC News and Entertainment Tonight and in front-page stories in more than two dozen newspapers. Mattel has managed to sell some 600,000 copies of its Power Glove, a crude $90 variant on the DataGlove that is designed for use with a Nintendo video-game player, despite the existence of only a handful of games to go with the glove. Virtual reality has even worked its way into the plot line of a feature film. In the forthcoming...
...thwart? The short answer: the capability to win World War III. And what would World War III be like? Again, the short answer: it would be like the beginning of World War II. The minds and computers of Western defense experts have long concentrated on two dangers, each a variant of a devastating episode that occurred about a half-century ago. One is an armored attack on Western Europe, a replay of Hitler's dash to the English Channel. The other is a nuclear Pearl Harbor, a bolt-from-the-blue attack by Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles that would catch...