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...scientists and activists from around the world gather this week in Bangkok for the 15th international AIDS conference, two new reports from the U.N. warn that Thailand's triumph may be in jeopardy. While Thai men are no longer visiting brothels in the numbers they once did, there has been an increase in extra-marital affairs and casual sex, and condom use has fallen dramatically. Meanwhile, HIV infection rates have spiked among young people, pregnant women and intravenous-drug users...
...court. It was created - and its judges selected - by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council. Salem Chalabi, the nephew of the once omnipresent opposition figure Ahmad Chalabi, was handpicked by former U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer to be its director. The U.S. government funds the tribunal, the fbi helps gather evidence and 20 U.S. lawyers support the prosecution. Saddam's court appearance was a concession to international law: the third Geneva Convention requires that prisoners of war be either charged or released at the end of hostilities - in this case, the transfer of sovereignty to Iraq. But the only print...
...full extent of the stampede out of Iraq can be measured in yards, in the line that stretches down the block outside Baghdad's passport office. In Saddam Hussein's time, many professional Iraqis were restricted from traveling abroad. Now the crowd begins to gather at about 6 a.m., three hours before the office opens. By 3 p.m. one recent Tuesday, immigration officials had run out of the 1,800 travel documents they issue each day. The number of applicants is likely to soar during the next few weeks when new graduates rush to leave. "I guess that...
HUGH SIDEY: On the cross-country flight with Nancy and the kids MIDDLE EAST DETAINEES: Has the U.S. been rewriting its rules on torture? LATIN AMERICA COLOMBIA: Paramilitaries are taking over the cocaine trade EUROPE SOCCER: Football stars and fans gather in Portugal for Euro 2004 ASIA INDONESIA: Martial law ends in Aceh, but the killing goes on SOUTH PACIFIC CRIME: A drugs bust in Fiji reinforces fears that the region is at risk SCIENCE CANCER: New targeted therapies help patients to live with their disease SPORT OLYMPICS: Kiwi sailboarder Barbara Kendall gets ready for Athens THE ARTS MUSIC: China...
...clear then that it was time to put up or shut up." Her work led to the first robots built specifically for the task, to be released in the next year by American Standard Robotics and the Northrop Grumman subsidiary Remotec. The robots are expected to be able to gather data by themselves so that operators can focus on the emergency at hand...