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- THE WEEK, Page 16HEALTH & SCIENCEEt Cetera
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- MISERY'S HEIRS
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- 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.
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- STOP! DON'T SHOOT!
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- 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.
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