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...occasional celebrity cameos (including an implausible visit from Matt Damon). At the end the viewer is left wondering why the film omitted important elements of Guevara's biography - his supervising of hundreds of executions in the first year of the regime; his break with Castro; his war year in Africa; his wives and children - and why, instead, it just goes into the woods with Che and, artistically, gets lost there...
These people give Pisani powerful evidence that we must first accept an obvious truth: HIV is not spread by poverty or underdevelopment, as aid workers sometimes suggest, but by the specific - usually avoidable - actions of human beings. Mali is poorer than South Africa, and Bangladesh is poorer than Kenya; yet Mali and Bangladesh have low HIV rates. Fighting AIDS through poverty alleviation has so far had little impact on disease spread, Pisani argues. But targeted distribution of condoms and needles to sex workers and addicts, she says, has been proved to save lives and prevent epidemics at low cost...
...place. In the late 1990s, she was in Geneva writing U.N. reports and begging for more AIDS funding. She tried to sell donor governments on the idea that smart prevention policies could stop other regions from falling into the kind of intractable crisis that unchecked AIDS had wrought in Africa. It worked, Pisani tells TIME, but not the way she intended: "We thought naively that if you said, 'If you don't do something for junkies, then women and children will get infected,' governments would do something for junkies." They didn't. Instead, donors and field workers were more interested...
Incredibly efficient to raise, insects are also crawling packets of nutrition. A 100-gram (3.5 oz.) portion of cooked Usata terpsichore caterpillars--commonly eaten in central Africa--contains about 28 grams (1 oz.) of protein, slightly more than you'd get from the same amount of chicken. Water bugs have four times as much iron as beef...
...actor; I was an actor. He and I became kindred spirits. Like any novice artists starting out, we decided that we knew everything that was wrong about the production. So that's how it started. We collaborated together [on seven films, including Out of Africa and The Way We Were] because I was always happy to be the actor to his director. I trusted...