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...Train, tram and bus operators, and hoteliers, will phone Walshe for his estimates, but it's his colleagues in event services who rely on them most. They use them as the basis for decisions on match-day staffing, such as how many of the club's 850 casual workers to call on (around 450 is normal for an average M.C.G. home-and-away crowd of 38,000), and how many to allocate to each of the various roles (ticket selling, spruiking, ushering, supervising). The club's contracted caterer, Spotless, is another interested party: it stocks its outer-ground food outlets...
...gather this week in Bangkok for the 15th international AIDS conference, two new reports from the U.N. warn that Thailand's triumph may be in jeopardy. While Thai men are no longer visiting brothels in the numbers they once did, there has been an increase in extramarital affairs and casual sex, and condom use has fallen dramatically. Meanwhile, HIV infection rates have spiked among young people, pregnant women and intravenous-drug users...
Muffy would be pleased. Thanks to the return of crayon-color hues in the latest fashions, the casual look of America's prep-school set is chic again. Standard-bearers of the style like Lacoste, maker of the alligator-adorned polo shirt, and Sebago, of Docksides fame, have relaunched their hallmark items with a modern flavor. Retailers like Urban Outfitters, which rode the grunge wave in the past decade, are stocking up on such preppy classics as candy-color ribbon belts and wood-handled Bermuda bags. Isaac Mizrahi showed preppy-inspired outfits, pictured right, from his latest collection last month...
...this week in Bangkok for the 15th international AIDS conference, two new reports from the U.N. warn that Thailand's triumph may be in jeopardy. While Thai men are no longer visiting brothels in the numbers they once did, there has been an increase in extra-marital affairs and casual sex, and condom use has fallen dramatically. Meanwhile, HIV infection rates have spiked among young people, pregnant women and intravenous-drug users...
...shroud around casual science talk exists not only because of its intricate nature or sometimes theoretical nature. Plenty of theoretical disciplines in the social sciences develop their own vocabularies and pursue lines of research so obscure that they’re impossible to discuss with anyone outside the field. Perhaps academia itself, especially when it has no immediate application or use to society, is uninteresting and difficult to talk about. Still, science seems to suffer from an unusual silence, thanks in large part to cultural norms that portray scientific research as absurdly dorky, hopelessly technical and often fruitless to society...