In a two-article series, a research scientist from Britain's National Institute for Medical Research reports on the Soviet Union's response to AIDS. The first article reviews Soviet policy in 1986-1987 when AIDS was regarded as a "Western" disease confined to certain risk groups that did not exist officially in the USSR. Small scale mandatory screening programs in 1986 and 1987 resulted in th...

A survey of diverse aspects the reception, attitudes toward, and activities foreigners in major cuneiform cultures third through first millennia B.C.E. While outsiders could play important roles their new environments, they were generally soon assimilated into host societies without effecting significant changes them. Only toward close this period did arrival large groups invaders convinced sup...