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Both gays and straights have struggled with the inconvenience of safe sex since the AIDS epidemic made condoms necessary more than a decade ago. But as AIDS deaths plummeted 23 percent in the last year due in large part to new drugs known as protease inhibitors (chart), a small but growing minority of gay men have begun seeking out unsafe sex again. Because of the months-long HIV incubation period, it’s too early to tell if this new attitude will reverse the declines in infection rates among homosexuals....

Representative Al Green has supported impeaching Trump for years, and his newest resolution that sought to oust him is the third such attempt. But this time is different. Although Green forced a vote on impeachment at a time when support among Democrats for initiating an impeachment inquiry is at an all-time high, former special counsel Robert Mueller is slated to come before Congress next week and several Democratic-led committees have yet to conclude their investigations into the president....

Now, with Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda being finalized this coming year, there’s more possible than ever before. Microsoft, Bethesda, and Obsidian Entertainment have the opportunity to make Fallout: New Vegas 2 a reality, but there’s another possibility that has been passed through circles before. Not only would it be great to see “New Vegas 2” actually being Fallout: New Orleans, but the solidification of that identity would come from stepping into the boots of another Courier....

Israel knows the story all too well. The blast was “a kind of terrorism we didn’t face two or three years ago – only in Lebanon,” Rabin said afterward, recalling the devastating attacks of the mid-’80s that slowly turned Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbor into a defeat. Last week’s blast at a bus depot near Netanya was the sixth major suicide bombing in the Israeli heartland since April. It brought home a bitter truth: shutting down Palestinian fundamentalists now takes precedence overcementing peace with the Palestine Liberation Organization....

title: “A Geopolitical Guide To The World Of Oil” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-10” author: “Paul Troutman”

He wasn’t all wrong. Naughton had indeed changed the world, launching Sun Microsystems’ efforts to create the popular Java programming language in the early ’90s. He later published two books about Java. He moved on to Seattle as technology chief at Starwave, an important early Internet player funded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen. There he helped establish such Web heavyweights as ESPN.com and ABC.com. More recently, he was a star at Disney, running the company’s family-oriented Web network....

That’s more than her homeland looks. Padilla is one of thousands who fled the devastation of Hurricane Mitch, which killed at least 9,000 people in Central America last October. When President Clinton tours Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala this week, he will promise continued U.S. support for rebuilding; his administration has already announced $1 billion in aid. Washington is motivated, in part, by concern that more refugees will attempt Padilla’s journey....

En concreto, la compañía comercializa desde hoy mismo el nuevo Motorola Edge 30 Pro, el más potente de la serie con el que pretende competir con el resto de marcas dentro de la gama más top que existe en el mercado. Solo este modelo por el momento. Durante la presentación presencial llevada a cabo por la marca en Madrid, Paola Gutierrez, Head of Marketing de Iberia de Motorola, ha destacado que “la gama Motorola Edge es una de las que más crecieron el pasado año, aportando un beneficio del 23% de las ventas realizadas por la marca”....

“Gilead” by Marilynne Robinson. It’s about a man coming to terms with his faith and his life. I couldn’t bear to be without it. “Maus” by Art Spiegelman. A masterpiece of art and storytelling. I get some new nuance from it every year. “Selected Stories” by Alice Munro. Each story is dense and delicious and different. They’re never predictable. “Doctor De Soto” by William Steig. The triumph of the small and the powerless over the smug and the powerful....

The Survival Condo in Kansas—the most lavish and sophisticated private bunker in the world—was once a Cold War U.S. government missile silo. Built in the early 1960s at a cost of approximately $15 million to the U.S. taxpayer, it was one of 72 “hardened” missile silo structures built to protect a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) 100 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Many of these silos were blown up and buried after decades of disuse....

Klinsmann has shown a willingness to give MLS players a chance, and with this January’s training camp roster, he runs through the league’s talent pool like a master craftsman. Yes, there is at least one head-scratcher of a call-up (Eric Alexander) and some MLS players who could have merited looks (like Kelyn Rowe, Lee Nguyen and Perry Kitchen), but the 26-player roster called in by Klinsmann does an excellent job of not only tapping into need areas, but also casting an eye toward the future....

Similar tensions roiled the prestigious Harvard Law Review. “That year was unusual in that there was a group of very assertive conservative types on the Law Review,” says Adam Charnes, who counted himself among them. Obama, who had earned a place on the journal in his first year at Harvard, saw a role for himself that has come to define his pitch for the presidency today—as a bridge-builder. He approached the conservatives, according to one who asked for anonymity in order to speak more freely....

It seemed to be such a natural deal at the time. In 1992, a senior official of the Electronics-Industry Ministry, Zhou Muchang, approached McGovern about a new joint venture. Launched a year later with IDG’s $300,000 investment, it put out China Infoworld. All went well–until Chinese investigators took Zhou into custody in 1997, just as he was preparing to celebrate his 61st birthday. “I was shocked to hear of the arrest,” says McGovern, who arrived in China the next day to learn that his partner was in jail....

Curtailing a state prisoner’s federal rights to challenge his incarceration–known as “habeas corpus relief”–has become an obsession for Rehnquist. Since he became chief in 1986, he has campaigned in opinions and speeches for the change, which would affect capital cases most prominently. Habeas claims, he argues, clog the federal courts, foment disrespect for the states and delay just punishment for the condemned. As far back as 1981, when he was still an associate justice, Rehnquist belittled the “arcane niceties” of death-penalty law....

From Arlington National Cemetery, where ashen visitors laid a bouquet of flowers at President Kennedy’s grave and a scribbled note that said “Praying for John Jr.,” to Camp David, where President Clinton spoke by phone with Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Sen. Ted Kennedy, the news hit with the shattering force of history. John F. Kennedy Jr., piloting his six-seat Piper Saratoga II HP from New Jersey to Martha’s Vineyard, had been lost at sea....

After all, there are many who would love either a proper or spiritual successor to Fallout: New Vegas, a game that followed in its footsteps, made players a Courier like in New Vegas, and explored a story similar to but not like Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. Given how long it has been since the original New Vegas, though, Bethesda and Obsidian obviously couldn’t rely on the past, but in the game universe as well, neither could the various factions of Fallout: New Vegas....