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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...deadly virus was initially tagged as a "gay disease" in the West, and its early victims struggled against a blatant and sometimes violent backlash. In Asia, homophobia took a different form: denial. For years, authorities asserted that HIV couldn't be a problem because homosexuality simply didn't exist. But by the late 1990s, it was obvious that HIV/AIDS posed a serious public-health threat that would only get worse if ignorance remained official policy. It's no coincidence that Pant's Blue Diamond Society initially worked on AIDS issues. Because of a global effort by public-health authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Asia's Gays are Starting to Win Acceptance | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...Environmentalists are generally ecstatic about Chu, but at a time when coal plants and heavily subsidized corn ethanol are creating huge environmental problems, some question his enthusiasm for "clean coal" and "third-generation biofuels," which do not yet exist, as well as his support for new nuclear power, which has become wildly expensive. They recall President George W. Bush talking up future technological miracles as an alternative to present-day action, and they want Chu to focus on proven technologies that can help boost efficiency and conservation to reduce energy demand now, plus on renewables to create zero-emissions supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Steven Chu Win the Fight Over Global Warming? | 8/23/2009 | See Source »

...Dippin' Dots, curly fries, chili-cheese nachos, caramel-coated marshmallows, frozen s'mores, funnel cakes and rootbeer floats. "You're pretty hard-pressed to find anything healthy," the woman added. But she gamely tried to steer me to a few hidden outposts of relatively nutritious fare. And they do exist. (See a pictorial history of state fairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Eat Healthy at the Iowa State Fair | 8/22/2009 | See Source »

...policy differences, matters of substance. The most liberal members of the Democratic caucus - Senator Russ Feingold in the Senate, Representative Dennis Kucinich in the House, to name two - are honorable public servants who make their arguments based on facts. They don't retail outright lies. Hyperbole and distortion certainly exist on the left, but they are a minor chord in the Democratic Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The GOP Has Become a Party of Nihilists | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...helping Mexico develop more sophisticated antidrug intelligence agencies and databases - particularly in areas like money-laundering, where law enforcement worldwide often cripples organized crime more than conventional interdiction does. "One of the best things the U.S. can do is help Mexico institute international policing protocols that just don't exist there now," says Schaefer. "Transparency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Drug War: A Cops and Choppers Story | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

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