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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter. • Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)

assumed it was a decadent bourgeois problem.The result Further Reading
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HIV vaccine is developed. Research into a cure for AIDS
continues apace; but until researchers develop an effective
vaccine, AIDS-prevention education and a commitment Airplane
by Western nations to provide funds for medical treat-
ment will remain the primary means of limiting this ilbur and Orville Wright are credited with invent-
epidemic. Wing the airplane in 1903. What separated the
brothers from all those before them who tried to build
Thomas L. Long
such a craft was, simply, that the Wright airplane was
See also Diseases—Overview capable of sustained, powered, and controlled flight. Air