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- THE WEEK, Page 24SOCIETYEt Cetera
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- INTO THE BREACH
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- Mary Fisher, who contracted the AIDS virus from her former
- husband and called for more action against the disease at the
- Republican Convention in August, has been named by President
- Bush to take Magic Johnson's place on the National Commission on
- AIDS. The daughter of Max Fisher, a top G.O.P. contributor, she
- recently founded the Family AIDS Network, a support group for
- families of AIDS patients. Said she: "We're all one family, and
- we want to have an end to this epidemic." But she conceded last
- week that little is likely to be done before the election.
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- FULL EXPOSURE
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- Long listed among the nation's worst polluters, the
- Pentagon and the Department of Energy are no longer free to
- ignore laws against hazardous waste pollution. The Federal
- Facility Compliance Act, signed by President Bush last week,
- permits state inspections of federal sites and authorizes heavy
- Environmental Protection Agency fines for violations. The new
- law comes after years of exposes accusing atomic-weapons plants
- of dumping dangerous, sometimes radioactive, by-products.
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