March/April 2001 Vol.4, No. 3

Contents The Special Relationship Reaffirmed by Melvin Rhodes When the Angel Leaves the Storm, Part 2 by Darris McNeely Mad Cow Disease: The Fear Alone Is Costly by Cecil E. Maranville Another Crack in the Transatlantic Alliance? by Paul Kieffer In Brief...World News Review by Cecil E. Maranville and John Ross Shroeder This is the Way...Running Better Than Ever by Robin Webber In Brief... World News Review AIDS Threat Persists If you visit Time Magazine's Internet site, scan the main menu on the left side of the screen until you come to "Special Features." Click on "AIDS in Africa." A photo essay will appear, headlined by the starkly sobering graphic of a red chronometer. The numbers change every 25 seconds, marking the infection of another African with HIV. The clock reads over 25,500,000. World News and Prophecy and The Good News have reported regularly about the havoc wreaked by AIDS in Africa. Time has found a way to dramatize the horrible reality of the dimensions of this tragedy in a way that words alone cannot accomplish. Once thought to be on the way to controlling AIDS, the U.S. population has reason for increased concern. A group of scientists and researchers working with the disease were confronted recently at a conference in California with statistical proof that HIV-infected people are spreading the disease with careless abandon. A series of studies of a variety of groups, including homosexuals and heterosexuals, showed that a majority did not reveal their infection status to sex partners. Prevention programs, touted as reason to believe that the threat of AIDS had peaked in the United States, are not reaching HIV-infected people. Sexual sin, says the apostle Paul in 1Corinthians 6:18, harms the body, in addition to the ultimate penalty sin garners. Dr. George Lamp, director of the Universitywide AIDS Research Program, related that HIV-infected people are receiving medication, but no one helps them with "the psycho-social and relationship issues." Read the full article at www.wnponline.org/wnp/wnp0103/inbrief0103.htm Related Information on UCG Sites: Table of Contents that includes "World News Review March/April 2001" Drugs: _The Hug Drug - or Sorrow Sold for Sweetness? _World News Review February 2001 _Governments Legislating Morality _World News Review May 2005 _The Terror of Cocaine - "In Dust We Trust" _An Overview of Conditions Around the World - Jan/Feb 1997 _Advice From Death Row _An Overview of Conditions Around the World - Jul/Aug 1998 _An Overview of Conditions Around the World - Jul/Aug 2001 _World News and Trends - May/June 2006 _The Greatest Addiction of All _Drug Abuse: A Major Health Problem _Breaking Free from Addictions _Student Reports of Availability of Drugs _The 12 Steps of Narcotics Anonymous _Addictions and Interventions _An Addict's Story: What's at the Root of Addictions? _Christian Values Under Attack _Question Whose Authority? _What Does God think About Drugs? _Ecstasy! A Hug Drug or the Kiss of Death? _"Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime Bag?" Africa: _Still a Troubled and Dangerous World _10 Million Orphans - an AIDS Holocaust in Africa _World News Review March 2000 _The Little Country That Could _Reversal of Fortune for Two African Countries _Fifty Years of the African Queen _Money Won't Solve These Problems _World News Review Dec 2002 _African AIDS Epidemic: Made Worse by Political Correctness _'Mr. Smith' Takes on Washington _Democracy Is More Than a Word _Ghana's Election Signifies Progress for Africa _African Debt--Is Wiping the Slate Clean a Good Idea? _Is Africa Dying Before Our Eyes? _The World Is Watching Nigerian Elections _Ghana at 50 _Vacuum of Leadership Grips Kenya _A Study in Contrasts _Africa: Still the Heart of Darkness? _An Overview of Conditions Around the World - May/Jun 2000 _10 Million AIDS Orphans: A Disaster for Africa _A Firsthand Account: Africa's Deadly AIDS Crisis _New African Union Founded to Copy EU Success _Corruption: A Way of Life for Much of the World _She Used to Be Our Queen, Too... _Dictatorships: Why Are They So Common? _Will Democracy Work in the Middle East? _The Biblical Solution for Africa's Biggest Crisis _How One of Today's 'Bad Guys' Ended the Scourge of Slavery _What's Behind the Growing Food Crisis? _"Waiting on the World to Change" _A World in Need of Hope _AIDS Can Be Stopped -- Now! _Africa's AIDS Crisis: A Doctor's Firsthand Account AIDS: _World News Review August 1998 _World News Review August 1999 _World News Review Dec 2000 _Doctor's Firsthand Account of South African Aids Crisis _World News Review Jun 2001 _World News Review Sep/Oct 2001 _World News Review Dec 2003 _World News Review March 2005 _A Look at the Current State of the World _An Overview of Conditions Around the World - Sep/Oct 1997 _World News and Trends - Jan/Feb 1998 _Could It Happen Again? _An Overview of Conditions Around the World - Jul/Aug 1999 _An Overview of Conditions Around the World Nov/Dec 1999 _World News and Trends - Mar/Apr 2000 _AIDS: How a Killer Plague Can Be Stopped _Letters From Our Readers - Jan/Feb 2001 _Coming: An End to Suffering _World News and Trends - Mar/Apr 2002 _The Dark Shadow Over Illicit Sex _An Overview of Conditions Around the World - Jul/Aug 2002 _An Overview of Conditions Around the World - Sep/Oct 2002 _The High Cost of Ignorance _2004: The World's Superpower Faces Powerful Challenges _Why Isn't Sex Safe? _God, Science and the Bible (11/05) _World News and Trends - Nov/Dec 2005 _World News and Trends - March/April 2006 Key Subjects Index General Topics Index Biblical References Index Home Page of this site