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- <text id=93TT2584>
- <title>
- Jan. 04, 1993: Health:Et Cetera
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 04, 1993 Man of the Year:Bill Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 16
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Et Cetera
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>MISERY'S HEIRS
- </p>
- <p> The social havoc wreaked by the AIDS epidemic continues to
- grow. A report in last week's Journal of the American Medical
- Association estimates that 18,500 healthy children and
- teenagers in the U.S. have lost their mothers to the disease.
- The study's authors, from the City University of New York and
- the Orphan Project, note that most of the children are
- impoverished and cannot turn to their fathers, who have either
- died of AIDS, are missing or are unwilling to help out. By the
- year 2000, the researchers project, the number of AIDS orphans
- will exceed 80,000.
- </p>
- <p>STOP! DON'T SHOOT!
- </p>
- <p> The state of Alaska made an abrupt about-face on its plan to
- destroy hundreds of gray wolves next year. In an effort to
- attract more tourists and big-game hunters, state officials had
- announced in November that they would cull the state's
- 7,000-member wolf population (wolves are not endangered in
- Alaska). They argued that the move was needed to boost the
- number of caribou and moose on which the wolf packs generally
- feed. But a growing boycott of Alaskan cruises by some of the
- very tourists the state had meant to attract forced officials
- to cancel their plans.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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