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...tempting to point to the activists' change in philosophy as proof that their earlier zeal was misguided and dangerous to their cause. But the truth is that the entire AIDS research and medical community has been undergoing an intense period of reassessment. Activists were not the only people who assumed AIDS would quickly fall before some magic bullet molded by science. Perhaps, as that illusion fades, more realistic -- and successful -- strategies will slowly emerge...
That may be an overstatement, but it raises a good and potentially troubling question: Are young people venturing abroad out of entrepreneurial zeal or because they feel squeezed and stymied by the U.S. job market? Elder observers provide contradictory answers. Maury Hanigan runs a consulting firm that advises multinational companies on staffing strategy and conducts focus groups with college students across the country. She says the twentysomethings she listens to express frustration at "the logjam caused by baby boomers, so many of whom are ahead of them in management jobs and won't retire for another 20 years...
...town does; up and down the Rockies you find municipalities struggling with the problem. Telluride's San Miguel County requires developers to set aside 15% of their sites for affordable housing. In Aspen, where resistance to more new "monster homes" has great zeal, there is a proposal to raise the amount of new development that must go for modest housing from 40% to 60%. In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where a 14,000-sq.-ft., three-bedroom log cabin is going up, building inspector Dennis Johnson says a campground for low-wage earners might not be a bad idea...
...what I am called upon to do." Starr has been entrusted in the past with sensitive tasks such as reviewing the diaries of Bob Packwood for the Senate Ethics Committee. While Starr has never before worked as a prosecutor, colleagues expect him to approach the Whitewater job with a zeal for thoroughness. He will probably reinvestigate some areas already covered even as he moves into new ones. There's a lot of wood to chop, and no telling where his ax will fall...
...loose alliance of computer bulletin-board operators suspected of trafficking in stolen software. By last week, according to unofficial reports, the Italian police had shut down more than 60 computer bulletin boards and seized 120 computers, dozens of modems and more than 60,000 floppy disks. In their zeal, say the suspects, some officers of the Guardia di Finanza grabbed anything even remotely high-tech, including audiotapes, telephone-answering machines and multiplug electrical outlets...