Word: foundered
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...trademark, a black t-shirt with the words “HIV POSITIVE.” His speech to the crowd of more than 150 was lively and humorous, referring frankly to his own HIV-positive condition and identity as a gay man. Achmat is the chair and founder of the Treatment Action Campaign, an HIV activism organization in South Africa. From 1998 to 2003, he stopped taking his antriretroviral drugs in protest against the drugs’ limited availability in South Africa. Achmat described AIDS as “the most important challenge for leadership in the twenty-first...
DIED. Helen Ullrich, 83, founder of the international Society for Nutrition Education, who agitated for labels with nutritional information and introduced a food pyramid at a 1988 global conference, four years before the U.S. Department of Agriculture published its original standard Food Guide Pyramid; in Berkeley, Calif...
...Authorities don't object to the world-is-my-classroom approach. So long as parents appear to be committed to their child's education, getting registered as a home educator is usually a formality. "The few who are knocked back," says Colleen Strange, Sydney-based founder of the Home Education Association, "haven't the slightest idea what they're doing." Registration comes up for renewal every year or two - when, in most parts of Australia, a bureaucrat will pay a visit to check that the child is making progress. It may be interesting to ponder how much you've retained...
...many of his critics on both the left and the right still don't entirely trust him. Unlike other like-minded leftist politicians in South America, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and recently elected Evo Morales in Bolivia, Humala doesn't come from humble beginnings. His father, who is the founder of an ultranationalist, neo-Marxist movement that preaches the superiority of indigenous Indian Peruvians over the country's descendants of the Spanish and promotes violence against those lighter-skinned elite, raised his children with dreams of some day taking power...
...explanation.” Dusek said that the scientists’ experiment was worthwhile, despite the lack of definitive results. “We were scientifically valid in trying...to ask a question that has never been asked before.” However, another critic, Dr. Harold Koenig, founder of Duke’s Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality, said the study overlooked the importance of sincerity of prayers. “God isn’t like a Coke machine, where you put in 50 cents and get one size and put in one dollar and get another...