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...center of the aids pandemic when it began in the 1980s - and was the first African country to fight the disease seriously. The ABC approach has helped cut the hiv rate in adults from more than 15% in 1990 to just under 7% today. Has the Ugandan government now forgotten its alphabet? A group of Ugandan and Western organizations and a senior U.N. aids expert claim that Uganda has over the last year allowed a condom shortage while promoting a message of abstinence based on religious dogma. "It's been a deliberate government policy to shift the emphasis from...
...even as the site continues to expand to millions of students across the country, Hughes said the company has not forgotten its modest beginnings...
...Before Katrina this area was hardly forgotten. The Mississippi Coast had experienced an economic boom in the past several years. Real estate values were skyrocketing and major casino chains from Las Vegas were building resorts along the water. All of that is gone. The rich white vacationers from New Orleans have left. What remains is a desperate population of working class folk trying to piece their lives back together...
...feds haven't totally forgotten this stretch of coastline. On a recent day, a lone piece of paper weighed down by a brick flapped in the Gulf breezes on one of the concrete slabs that had been swept clean by the storm surge. Printed large in the upper left corner of the page was the seal of the Department of Homeland Security. The letter, addressed to the owner Gladis Miskell, read: "I visited your home today to perform an inspection of the damages to your home and personal property caused by the recent disaster. Since you were not here...
Apart from the desperately needed realization that, try as we might, nature is our ultimate master, we also need to remember the character of the polity in which we live. In case we have all forgotten, we live in a federal republic, not an autocracy, and the responsibility for our proximate care and service is the responsibility of our elected local government, not George W. Bush. Even in an emergency, the immediate responsibility for civilian lives rests with local governments which are supposed to “hold the line” until help arrives. In Katrina?...