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...When humiliating photos of the busted men were broadcast on local television, gay groups criticized the police for harassment. But last Tuesday the police released the results of blood tests forced on the young men, showing that 28 of them were HIV positive. Officially, Taiwan has only 5,251 people living with HIV out of a population of 23 million. "The department used to think it had underestimated the nation's infected population by 10%-15%," says Health Minister Chen Chien-jen. The tests on the party goers, Chen says, suggest the real HIV figures may be considerably higher...
...radio isn't the first digital format. Satellite radio from Sirius and XM is transmitted digitally as well. The difference is that regular AM and FM stations broadcast HD radio, whereas satellite companies broadcast a separate stable of nationwide stations. You will need to buy a new radio or tuner to get HD radio, but you won't need to pay a monthly subscription fee or buy a new antenna, as you do with satellite radio. HD radio also lets you read song titles on your receiver's display. The first models are designed for automobiles...
Americans under 50, as the cliche goes, were raised by the mass media. And this fall, as grown children sometimes do, some of them began to neglect their mother. On the major broadcast TV networks, ratings among viewers 18 to 49 years old (the group most closely watched by advertisers) were down 8%. The drop-off was even worse among men under 35, the couch potatoes of the future. The rejection was almost poignant. You don't call? You don't write? It would kill you to pick up a remote...
...unable to bear children, has been a prominent crusader against the stigma Japanese society attaches to infertile couples. Her and her husband's struggle to become parents was the subject of a TV documentary, and their story has been adapted as a TV drama, both of which were broadcast earlier this year. "I want women to know that if the stork doesn't come to them, they can go search for their stork," Mukai said last year...
...acceptable in the conservative community. Gray isn't welcome on any subject in the land of Rush. I found that out the hard way this summer when I filled in as the host of the Mike Gallagher Show, a conservative radio show with 2.5 million weekly listeners, broadcast on 175 stations. The listeners didn't seem to like me very much. This was only partially because I was really bad at it. Basically, they thought I was a liberal, even though I didn't say one liberal thing. I had invited a member of People for the Ethical Treatment...