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...Risk compensation” or the idea that people are more likely to engage in riskier sex and have multiple partners if they use condoms at least some of the time, is cited as one reason for the failure of condoms to slow the AID epidemic in Africa. With brand names like “Shield” and “Trust,” Green said that the condoms marketed and distributed in Africa provide a false sense of security. While Nick Danforth, a resident scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis...
...alarms about the emirate's economic woes. The news has not been easy to take for the showpiece city-state, the most populous among the seven sheikdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates. Indeed, even as the rest of the world spiraled into crisis, the U.A.E. insisted its brand-name city would not be drawn in by the downturn. In fact, the U.A.E. established a "no news is good news" policy of sorts. In January the government announced that fines ranging from $13,600 to $272,500 would be levied against any media outlet that published news considered damaging...
...capital of the U.A.E. and the only emirate with petroleum wealth - are believed to be forthcoming, though no officials will discuss details. "Any bailout from Abu Dhabi will come very privately," says Christopher Davidson, author of Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success. "Abu Dhabi doesn't want the Dubai brand to suffer, even if Dubai has disgraced itself with its economic planning." (See how Dubai placed among the top 10 architectural postponements...
...high-speed” Acela can only travel an average of 85 miles per hour. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a close friend of mine from high school was landing at Shanghai Pudong Airport for his semester abroad. He bought a ticket for the brand-new Maglev train from Pudong to the center of the city, covering a distance of twenty miles in seven minutes...
...Kayak.com has just launched a new hotel review site called TravelPost, giving TripAdvisor a run for its money. TravelPost aggregates descriptions, photos and ratings of 140,000 hotels from 200 travel sites - including Orbitz, Hotels.com, BedandBreakfast.com, IgoUgo.com, Epinions.com and the hotels' own websites. Search by hotel name, star rating, brand, room type and location, and see reviews from other travelers. In true Kayak.com fashion, you can also filter the reviews by the writers' age, gender, budget, and style of travel (business or leisure...