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...solve. Perhaps this is because AIDS is a global issue that defies categorization: it has become so much a social issue that touches development, poverty, and public health, though it is still nothing but a virus. It is at its simplest a microscopic retrovirus and at its most complex an indicator of societal patterns ranging from prostitution to the unequal distribution of wealth and pharmaceuticals.What was once ignorantly considered solely a gay disease now has now been shown to be biologically nondiscriminatory with regard to gender, race, or socioeconomic status. And while this serves the benefit of breaking down...
...impact of socialization and discrimination, including implicit attitudes—patterns of thought to which all of us are unconsciously subject,” Summers wrote in the letter that was released on Thursday along with the transcript. “The issue of gender difference is far more complex than comes through in my comments, and my remarks about variability went beyond what the research has established...
Another losing day? Not necessarily. He had accomplished something, proving again that his willpower, his think-first, ski-better approach, had prevailed. That must have made him happy. And he probably had a beer afterward. That probably made him happy too. [This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...Covarrubias created an impressive body of drawings and paintings of the life of the island, and carried out the research for a dense 400-page book about its culture. Amazingly, Island of Bali, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1937, is still the indispensable work on the island's complex rituals and philosophy...
...instant-message interview—but not to divulge his or her name. The creator, who conceived of the idea after learning about Shuttleboybot, wrote the script for YummyFoodBot in a programming language called Perl. The YummyFoodBot program looks for patterns in the messages that it receives. For more complex queries—such as a request for a menu several days away—the program takes about 10 seconds to respond as it pulls the needed information off the HUDS site. The creator said it took a full day to figure out how best to implement the idea...