AMSTERDAM — As the airport lounge filled up with passengers waiting to board Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a renowned professor rushed to the gate while texting a colleague saying that he was “superbusy.”
Veering into the business class line, Dr. Joep Lange, an AIDS researcher, passed a former election observer who had just returned from Ukraine.
The disaster claimed the lives of a number of people headed to the International AIDS Conference, scheduled to begin on Sunday in Melbourne, Australia, the International AIDS Society said Friday. Dr. Lange, 59, was accompanied by his partner, Jacqueline van Tongeren, 64 .... http://www.nytimes.com
