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...been exposed to the HIV virus, she probably will be soon. In China, according to some foreign health workers, the number of AIDS cases is increasing at a rate of 30% annually. Health authorities now concede that the official national figure of 20,098 HIV cases is a tiny fraction of the reality: around 600,000 cases. Following the usual pattern, the disease is spreading fastest among China's intravenous drug users and among an estimated 4 million to 10 million sex workers, most of whom don't insist their clients use condoms...
Graduate student housing at Harvard is even more strained than that for undergraduates; currently, only one in four applicants can get into University-owned housing (apartments), and a small fraction live in the few dormitory rooms. There are over 3,000 students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) alone, most of whom teach and research on the Cambridge campus, and we compete for dormitory and University-owned housing with students at all of Harvard's graduate schools. If tossed into an already overburdened, hideously expensive housing market, GSAS students will be forced to live farther and farther...
Looking to redeem himself, Packard struck again at 8:16 but Kim was bowled in to the net, knocking it off its moorings only a fraction of a second before Packard's tally. Upon further review thanks to video replay, the referee recalled Packard's second would-be goal...
...give it up. Masrun, with a toothless smile, says he's now free to sell whatever he harvests, and he's earning 10 times more than before. "Going back to nagari means going back to our roots and putting everything back in its rightful place." If autonomy brings a fraction of the justice Masrun has received, Indonesia may just yet hold together as a nation...
...library. Cooper came across some sequences from an unfinished stop-action animation film called "Creation," the pet project of animator Willis O'Brien (more on him in a moment). As soon as Cooper saw the footage, he realized that Komodo Island could be created in-house for a fraction of the cost of an expedition...