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Ogletree said he plans to implement an "ambitious agenda" that will expand what is already the largest and wealthiest clinical program in the country...
There is still a long way to go. The new combination-drug therapies cost tens of thousands of dollars a year, putting them out of reach, for now, of all but the wealthiest or best-insured patients. Any long-term solution for AIDS will also have to take into account the estimated 20 million people living outside industrialized countries who are infected with HIV. Most of them cannot afford basic health care let alone high-tech treatments, and most are infected with a different subtype of HIV than those commonly studied in the U.S. and Europe. Nor can the scourge...
While such disparity seems outrageous, it is the inevitable outcome of an historical chain of events. In the 1800s, New Bedford's whaling industry made it the wealthiest city, per capita, in the nation. As the whaling died out, the city, like most of its neighbors in the Northeast, began to focus on the tremendous textile industry. All over New England, towns like Lowell, Lawrence and Fall River sprang up around the new mills that were pumping out cotton cloth...
Still, Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, which cuts across some of Atlanta's most affluent suburbs, is not exactly Democratic territory. It is one of the wealthiest congressional districts in the country (its $47,000 median household income ranks 23rd of 435 districts) and strongly Republican (56% of voters in the Sixth backed George Bush in 1992). But centrist Democrats like Georgia Governor Zell Miller and Senator Sam Nunn have also run strongly in the Sixth, and Democrats insist that Gingrich's abrasive personality is turning off voters across the board. Says Steve Anthony, executive director of the Democratic Party...
...says, it's not because he's disenchanted with public life. "Look," he says, getting energized, "the current rap on politics is that it's mean-spirited and uncivil, that this country is broke and you can't do anything. That's self-indulgent horse manure. We're the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world. Oh, gee, a politician is disappointed in the process and in what government can do," he says, his voice leavened with sarcasm. "Well, go to a military cemetery on Memorial Day and bitch about how democracy has disappointed...