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Africa's affliction

Cover Story | Health officials call it an epidemic, folk doctors call it the plague, and church workers believe it is a divine opportunity. Can Africa beat AIDS?

Common ground in Africa's AIDS war

Cover Story | Is it possible for a gay activist quilt-maker and "big missionary boots" to do battle together?

Condom crazy

Cover Story | The UN pushes contraception to fight AIDS, ignoring Uganda's successful abstinence-preferred strategy

In this issue: "AIDS: Africa's affliction," Sept. 9, 2000

Features

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Out with the old, in with the new

National |  Jeremy Sewell, schooled at home in Falls Church, Va., scored 1,480 on his SAT and had a handful of colleges to choose from. The choice came down to Virginia's…

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Give me Patrick Henry

National |  New Christian college targets the Beltway

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Presidential pedagogy

National |  Bush, Gore spend more, but in different areas

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Whatever it takes

National |  Teaching the test, testing the parents, detaining the teachers, and other news from the world of education

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Stemming an ethical tide

National |  Arkansas congressman wages a lonely battle against the Clinton administration over stem-cell research

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Brits go a step further

National |  We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands," claimed the late Carl Sagan. His words sounded chillingly prophetic last month when the…

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High-tech market virus

National |  Investors fall prey to stock-price hoax; the so-called "digital divide" debunked; DVD pirates slapped

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Making the grade

National |  As kids return to the classroom for a new school year, WORLD reports on the struggles of parents, teachers, and policymakers who are trying to change the way…

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A parent's right to choose

National |  Educational choice gains momentum with the public and puts heat on schools to shape up or shut down

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Reading, 'riting, red tape

National |  Why are public schools spending almost as much on overhead as they are on in-classroom instruction?

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Your cheating heart

National |  A new wave of academic dishonesty, among teachers as well as students

Dispatches

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The Buzz

GOP gives in on minimum wage, gives up on tax relief Congressional cave-in Congressional Republicans buckled under election-year pressure and agreed to…

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Ups & Downs of the Week

OPINION OF MARRIAGE: A new poll shows that nearly two out of three Americans say that strengthening families is more important than increasing job…

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Faces

The Houston Eagles soared to victory in the First Annual Homeschool Baseball World Series, defeating the Atlanta Barons 7-4. Held in Nashville, Tenn., this…

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No Comment Zone

"Your money or your life!" Fewer people faced that choice last year, according to the Justice Department, which last week reported that the violent-crime rate…

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Quotables

If society can't do something to protect this kid, there is something wrong with that. Paul F. Walsh, district attorney in Attleboro, Mass., on why he went to…

Reviews

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All kinds of evil

Culture |  A regular guy's envy is no better than a rich man's greed

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The Movies

Culture |  The top 5 movies in popularity as measured by box office receipts for the weekend of Aug. 27

Voices

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The right to choose

Gun rights and educational choice: What's the difference?

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Supreme wisdom

Honoring God in the grandparent wars

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An ode to "e"

W* rar*ly notic* how d*p*nd*nt w* ar*

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Mailbag

More than paper I was one of those hat-waving, foot-stompin', chair-standing, hoopin' and hollerin' (and now hoarse) Texas delegates at the Republican…

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