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...host a panel in New York City for the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, an initiative of UNAIDS. Four extraordinary women--Frika Chia Iskandar of Indonesia, Princess Kasune Zulu of Zambia, Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga of Bolivia and Michaelle Soliman of Haiti--spoke eloquently of their efforts to combat AIDS in their countries. This November TIME and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plan to hold a Global Health Summit in New York City, bringing together medical experts, politicians and business leaders to discuss new ways to combat diseases like AIDS, malaria, TB, malnutrition and cholera. We will also...
...combat the precedent, Wessel says Summers even started writing thank-you notes at the Treasury, praising staff for doing a good job and complimenting reporters for publishing fair, if not always favorable, stories...
...seeping through, out the bottoms of the humvees. Ten humvees had busted out of a kill zone but were shot to hell. There was one KIA, and nearly everyone else was wounded one way or another." Officers interviewed by TIME say that as the emphasis shifted from peacekeeping to combat, commanders issued new rules of engagement that gave the Marines much more latitude in deciding when to use deadly force...
...case of China convincing the E.U. to do something the U.S. doesn't want. The policy shift, says Yan Xuetong, director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing, will be evidence of nothing less than "a common interest in Europe and China to combat world domination by America." After a week in which Bush and European leaders reaffirmed their shared values, it is hard to believe that the Europeans really want to send such a signal. But if the embargo is lifted, that is the signal that Asians will receive...
...money that developing countries clearly can ill afford. Officials at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which co-sponsored the Ho Chi Minh City conference, have appealed for international help with little success; wealthy donor nations contributed only $18 million of the $100 million needed last year to combat avian flu in Asia. "Given the size of the problem, that's just glaringly insufficient," says Dr. Samuel Jutzi, director of the FAO's animal production and health division...