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...without papers who inform on their pimps will be given temporary residency permits. It's the massive influx of foreign prostitutes that has brought a legislative response. According to French police, prostitute numbers have increased by at least 30% over the past five years. Foreigners, many of them illegals, account for more than 60% of the prostitutes in France. Although Paris remains the market leader, business is booming outside the capital too. "Sarkozy has decided to clean up the streets," says Bernard Lemettre, president of the Nest Movement, a Catholic group that helps prostitutes to break out of the business...
INDICATORS Your Not-So-Secret Account After more than a decade of haggling, E.U. governments agreed to share information on nonresidents' bank accounts to help fight tax evasion. But the deal included a big loophole for Luxembourg, Belgium and Austria, which will keep their banking secrecy, levying a 35% tax on savings in return...
...disorder, checked himself out of the hospital and into a hotel room, where he medicated himself with megadoses of vitamin C and endless reruns of Marx Brothers movies and old episodes of Candid Camera--anything that would keep him laughing and relieve his pain. It worked, according to the account he wrote up for the New England Journal of Medicine and later published as a book, Anatomy of an Illness. The disease that practically paralyzed him and had not responded to any drugs subsided and eventually disappeared...
...evidence is strong that the recipe is cooked up very early in life. Until about a decade ago, most experts assumed that it was a violent or impoverished upbringing that led to violent adults. "We're depraved," says one of the gang members in West Side Story, "on account of we're deprived." Indeed, studies had suggested a correlation between a harsh childhood and later criminality. The link was strongest for those who had been physically abused as kids. Still, not all abused children grow up to perpetrate violence in turn. Something else must be going...
...with HIV, 3 million of them children. All told, more than 20 million have died of AIDS since 1981. Progress in the research labs has been slow and not that steady, but it has produced some results. Scientists discovered three proteins--alpha-defensins 1, 2 and 3--that may account for the so-called non-progressors, the 1% or 2% of people who contract HIV but never develop AIDS. Also, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new rapid HIV test called OraQuick, which reliably detects HIV antibodies in a blood sample in less than 30 minutes...