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Atmar described a series of new efforts to curb police corruption - although he was much less forthcoming about the Karzai government's buckraking - and some of the programs, especially those that paired local police with NATO mentoring teams, seemed quite promising. Indeed, right now Afghanistan is bristling with new ideas, and the slightest sliver of hope. It is, of course, easy to be deluded by a handful of pro-Western Afghans who hazard a visit to the U.S. embassy, but there is a quality of pride and independence to these people - a consequence of their never having been successfully colonized...
...martial, high-risk sex puts both those men and their wives at risk, according to a study Zhang conducted in 2006, and the enduring discrimination homosexuals face in China prevents many men from getting tested for HIV/AIDS or seeking treatment. Only with more understanding and tolerance will efforts to curb the spread of HIV be effective, Zhang said. (Read about Hong Kong's gay pride revolution...
...1500s, Pope Leo X underwrote his lavish lifestyle in part by taxing licensed prostitutes, and Peter the Great preyed on Russian vanity two centuries later by charging men who grew beards. In the Federalist papers, American patriot Alexander Hamilton proposed an excise tax on alcohol to boost revenues and curb consumption. The measure, enacted in 1791, sparked the Whiskey Rebellion, in which federal authorities were forced to quash an uprising by livid Pennsylvania settlers...
...practice good hygiene. Good hygiene is essential in preventing these types of infections,” said David S. Rosenthal ’59, the director of Harvard University Health Services. Harvard already requires hand sanitizer in every dining hall and gloves on every dining hall worker to curb the potential spread of disease. Although many schools have now taken the necessary precautions to stop future epidemics, the Norovirus is no stranger to college campuses across the country. Within the past year, it has already infected Georgetown, USC, and Hope College in Michigan...
...when discussing their love lives. He calls for an end to this full disclosure, until he finds himself revealing the same kind of information to his new pal Sydney. Eventually hanging out for seven-hour stretches with Sydney and bailing on dates with Zooey, Peter must also learn to curb his bro time. Despite the premise of heterosexual bonding in “I Love You, Man,” it somehow gets caught up and confused throughout most of the movie with homosexual intimacy. Andy Samberg’s character, Robbie, is gay, yet the majority of his boyfriends...