A plague of denial
Last week's Washington Post series on AIDS inspires rage and fear in equal measure. Rage because governments and development agencies were negligently slow in resonding to the crisis, even though its
Last week's Washington Post series on AIDS inspires rage and fear in equal measure. Rage because governments and development agencies were negligently slow in resonding to the crisis, even though its
Australia called for an international agreement to save the albatross, one of the world's most majestic sea birds. Environment Minister Robert Hill warned an international meeting that some of the 20
A dip in temperature and strong winds brought some relief from a heat wave that has scorched southeastern Europe, leaving at least 37 people dead so far and sending hundreds to hospitals. But the dry
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has so exasperated AIDS researchers that some have decided not to attend the international AIDS conference in Durban. First he said that AZT, which has safely
For four years Italians have largely puffed away in defiance of a no-smoking law. Now the cabinet has approved a decree to turn what amounted to "No smoking, please," to "No smoking, really!" If
A typhoon that left dozens of people dead in the Philippines and Japan weakened into a tropical storm as it veered off Japan's eastern coast and headed out to sea. In the Philippines, officials
In Kenya, it costs $18 a pill for fluconazole, a drug patented in most of the world by Pfizer Inc. to avert a national AIDS disaster. A cheaper generic version of the drug was available and made
The head of the United Nations agency on AIDS appealed for $3 billion, close to a tenfold increase, to fight the pandemic in Africa, where the infection rate reaches as high as one in three adults.
Surgeons in Taiwan and the United States have restored vision to people with previously untreatable eye damage by transplanting tissue grown in a laboratory. In a pair of new studies, researchers
White farmers in Zimbabwe are offering to sell an additional 400 farms to the government for its black resttlement program, bringing to 600 the number of farms made available to the government this