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...know if that person behind the counter is a police officer," Murphy said...
Although these activities are planting the seeds for eventual self-sufficiency in these areas, assistance from the U.S. and other industrialized nations will be required to effectively counter the global AIDS epidemic. The delivery of effective foreign aid requires an in-depth understanding of the complexities of the epidemic in the developing world. To foster such understanding among populations, the four branches of VISIONS in the U.S., at Harvard, MIT, Tufts and Columbia, organize an annual international conference for students, professionals and leaders of various communities...
...Children are bearing the brunt of the current economic hardship," said Philippe Heffinick, UNICEF's Baghdad representative. Unfortunately, the malnourished children are also becoming a bargaining counter and propoganda tool for Saddam Hussein. Iraqi television is dominated by images of women wailing over the bodies of eight children apparently starved to death at a Baghdad hospital...
...What I know about the bar business, you could put on the back of a small stamp... but I have 30 years experience on this side of the counter," he said, as he sipped a frothy pint earlier this week...
...growing up in a comparatively deprived environment doesn't necessarily lead to bad choices. In a direct counter to long-held stereotypes, the poll found that it is white kids, not black, who are most likely to have experimented with drugs and alcohol--by roughly...