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...Ballagan felt that a Bollywood film would be the most effective way to air the subject of sexual health. So she pried $30,000 out of the National Health Service, convinced a prominent Birmingham writer, Rod Dungate, to develop a script, and flew to Bombay. There she roped in producer and director Gautam Verma, known for not shying away from controversial topics. He, in turn, persuaded several top soap stars to take part. "You could see a bit of fear on their faces," recalls Ballagan. "They were wondering if they would ruin their reputations acting in an AIDS movie...
...animals from eating his crops; and viral hemorrhagic pneumonia did the same in the early 1980s when it arrived from Asia, probably via shipments of contaminated meat and infected live rabbits. Not much can be done to fend off such viruses; conservationists just have to wait until the rabbits develop immunity, as they did against myxomatosis. Now the lynx's habitat is becoming almost as scarce as its food supply. Over the past 50 years, Spain's areas of wood and scrubland have shrunk dramatically as a result of farming and development. To give the lynx a fighting chance...
...dismantle its weapons of mass destruction, North Korea admitted it had for several years been conducting a clandestine program to develop nukes. Washington said the revelation came earlier this month, after Assistant Secretary of State James A. Kelly presented evidence in Pyongyang that North Korea had a program to enrich uranium - which is a prerequisite for nuclear weapons. Confronted with the proof, North Korean officials conceded they had "nullified" a 1994 deal with the U.S. to stop developing such warheads. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he believed Pyongyang had a "small number" of nukes. But North Korea has not admitted...
Regardless of its religious past, Slade feels the fraternity’s modern justification for the clause is misguided. According to Slade, the fraternity now claims it is not trying to force all members to be Christian. Instead, it insists that by believing in a higher power, members will develop a strong set of values. Slade disagrees. “People can share values while having a wide range of religious beliefs and interests,” he says. Slade says he is skeptical of the fraternity’s claim that it was only attempting to foster integrity...
Babcock began his work at Harvard when he joined University Health Services (UHS) in 1955. In years following, he helped develop UHS and watched it become a comprehensive treatment center...