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Roatan is a lush tropical island of some 60,000 people and a paradise for scuba divers in the west of Honduras. It has lately also become a boom town for American investors seeking to buy into lucrative sea-front condominium communities that are going up across this 36-mile-long island, a two-and-a-half-hour flight from Houston. But what many of the developers and buyers don't know or refuse to acknowledge is that Roatan has the second highest incidence of AIDS in Honduras, after the port city of San Pedro Sula. Health care workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Caribbean Getaway Becomes an AIDS Hot Spot | 5/29/2007 | See Source »

...into only minuscule wins. This time the field was wide open: Ahern was contending with intense media scrutiny of his personal finances and criticism of his government's efforts to improve the poor state of the country's health service. There were even concerns about whether the Irish economic boom - the so-called Celtic Tiger - is on the wane, though the queues at the bookmakers suggest some voters still have money to burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Irish Election in a Photo Finish | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

...practice continued after Saddam's fall. Many of Baghdad's major intersections became festooned with black banners. The mounting death toll from suicide bombings and roadside explosions led to a boom in the funerary industry - coffin makers, grave diggers, caterers. Wakes were often held in mosques, and before sectarian hatreds flared up it was not uncommon for Sunnis to use Shi'ite mosques, or the other way around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iraq, Every Day Is Memorial Day | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...critic, I accept their right to undercut expectations; I hereby validate their modernist parking ticket. But there's enough of a movie kid left in me that I'd like to see this almost-great effort not go bust at the end, but climax in a great big bloody BOOM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Twisty Delights | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...second. Madick was named Ivy Pitcher of the Year and second team All-Northeast region by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. There should be little question that Madick is the real deal.Murphy, who fittingly enters the batters box to DMX’s “Here comes the Boom,” set the Ivy League home run record (18) in her first season with the Crimson in addition to knocking in 47 RBI and hitting at a team-leading clip of .359. Murphy was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year and first team All-Northeast.If Murphy?...

Author: By Julia R. Senior, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rocket Arm, Rookie Keys to Weekend Matchup | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

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