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...women and 3,779 men ---- for more than a year and found that women were a third more likely to die than men whose AIDS virus was at a similar level of development. Women represent only 15 percent of AIDS patients nationally, although women and children make up the fastest growing AIDS population. The study's authors say, however, that women wait longer before seeking an AIDS test or treatment and may be treated differently than men even after the disease is diagnosed...
...fastest growing student groups on campus. Membership has roughly doubled in the past two years, according to out-going president Eugene...
...rate of drug use among American youth is "getting worse at a fairly rapid pace," according to a government report released today. The 52,000-student survey, performed for the Department of Health and Human Services by the University of Michigan, found the drug-using trend was accelerating fastest among pre-teens: 25 percent of eighth graders queried, for example, acknowledged using illicit drugs at some point in their lives (35 percent counting inhalants). The most striking finding: Admissions of marijuana use within the past year doubled since 1991 for eighth graders (to 13 percent); 10th graders' jumped from...
...formerly reserved for the army, visitors shoot duck in some of Fidel's favorite stalking grounds. Gaviota takes tourists to the outskirts of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo and lets them spy on troop movements -- cocktails and binoculars included. TRD Caribe, the newest arm of Gaviota, is the fastest-growing chain of department stores. TRD, appropriately enough, stands for tienda recaudacion en divisas -- literally, "store to rake in the dollars...
...landslide on trade relations, promising an "open door" come what may at home. On Tuesday's agenda: U.S. officials expect endorsement of a statement calling for "open and free trade" throughout the region by the year 2020. BTW: U.S. trade with Asia, home to the world's fastest growing economies, is triple that with European countries.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...