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...statement cites a United Nations (U.N.) estimate that 24.5 million people in sub-Saharan African were infected with HIV at the end of 1999. The HIV virus is deadly if left untreated and the statement argues that the social fabric and economic situation of highly affected nations will further deteriorate if the virus is left untreated. The biggest challenge, the document states, is obtaining and distributing drugs to treat the virus in the hardest-hit areas...
...included, who view the Net's role in broadening the political debate as beneficial. "New channels of expression foster the democratic process," says Hsu. But there are costs, particularly with the kinds of guerrilla tactics that the most technologically sophisticated activists have at their fingertips. Hackers erode the fabric of political debate as much as they challenge state control, says Cancer Omega, a systems administrator at attrition.org. "The U.S.-China cyberwar wasn't about politics," he says. "It was simply a high-tech version of two dogs bent on being the last to mark a fire hydrant." But all agree...
...economic terms, it's barely a snowflake. The gay and lesbian couples coming to Vermont to wed are but a tiny fraction of the 4 million visitors the state attracts each year. What's significant is that in some Vermont towns, civil unions have become a part of the fabric of everyday life. In Brattleboro, a bucolic community of 12,000 residents in liberal southern Vermont, there were 292 civil unions from July to December 2000--the same number as there were straight marriages for the whole year. Even the Chamber of Commerce is a one-stop referral service. Along...
Such practices give full weight to the notion of media as institution. As judgment is passed from a standpoint as removed from experience as it is mediated by, well, media, one worries that much cannot be seen in the mirror. The quotidian fabric of facts which is the foundation not simply for media’s actual operation but of its very claim to authority is one such. How plebian these foundational questions seem; how ordinary! Yet it is very dangerous when an institution becomes sufficiently myopic that its own cryptic doings and intricate rituals are allowed to obscure...
Local traditions fuel the problem. In the past, it was normal for West African families to send a child to stay with richer relatives in the city and for newlyweds to hire a young village girl to cook and clean for them. But with "the fabric of the extended family breaking down, things have become distorted," says Lisa Kurbiel, a child-protection officer with UNICEF. What was a custom has become an organized trade, with children being taken as far away as South Africa and the Middle East. Closer to home, they end up in such places as the labor...