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...bear the heaviest burden of AIDS around the world. "Women still have problems discussing safe sex with their partners," says Gupta. "This survey highlights the extent to which stigma continues to be a significant barrier to people being able to talk about the epidemic, to accept risk, and to access services. [It] highlights how much more we need to do in order to ... ensure that people around the world understand that HIV/AIDS is [still] an epidemic that puts them at risk." Even if it takes another 25 years - or more...
...modem from their cable company or a digital subscriber line (DSL) from their phone company. The first wave of BPL roll-outs doesn't pose much of a threat to the Comcasts and Verizons of the industry, which boast millions of customers and have been selling high-speed access since the late '90s. Some 22 million U.S. households already subscribe to a broadband service, according to Forrester Research analyst Jed Kolko, making it one of the biggest hits of the digital...
...Manassas, Zplug recently added Internet phone service to its offerings (charging $30 for unlimited local and long-distance calls), but officials have enough to be worried about these days just getting customers hooked up with Web access. Fewer than 200 accounts have been activated, while 1,350 locals remain on a waiting list, in part because of start-up problems with Prospect Street Broadband, a venture firm selected to handle Zplug's day-to-day operations, and in part because utility workers are still installing the network. City officials expect to name a new investor sometime...
Merita's bid to become Northern Europe's phone-in bank of the future depends a lot on the latest technology. Customers can use cutting-edge wireless application protocol (WAP) browsers, built into the latest generation of European phones, which allow customers to enjoy full Internet access to their accounts. WAP phone owners can check account balances, pay bills, transfer money and even buy shares on the Finnish stock market...
...fact that they have any serious political power at all is remarkable because Australian whites, in the course of waging an undeclared war of conquest against the Aborigines, systematically denied them any access to the culture of politics right from the moment of settlement in 1788. Aborigines weren't mentioned in the Australian constitution when it took force in 1901. Not until 1962 were they given federal voting rights. The historical weight of discrimination against them is crushing...