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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>
</body>
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