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...With life-saving antiretroviral drugs now making their way into developing nations in more consistent supply chains and ever lower prices, it's time, as many AIDS researchers and public health officials stressed this week, to deliver more - more medications to more of those in need in the remotest, hardest to reach regions of the world; more health care personnel to administer and care for HIV-AIDS patients; more formulations for children, the youngest victims of HIV; more research dedicated to developing the still elusive vaccine, and, until that happens, more options...
...stress. After three and a half years in Iraq, I have so many stories of that ilk I may never need to pay for my own drink again. But as difficult as working in Iraq can be, many in the press corps here will tell you that, often, the hardest time is when you're not working. For a journalist, life in Baghdad is about two extremes: risking our lives pursuing stories and battling deadly boredom...
...Myers claims to be unsentimental when it comes to gnomes-"there's just that many of them, so you don't have favorites." Hardest to make is an elegantly tapered, 1.2-m-tall painted emu, which carries the relatively steep price of $160. Which all helps to pay the rent. And, despite the distant noise of the highway, he couldn't wish for a better place to farm gnomes. "A beautiful little spot," he says. Enchanted, to be sure...
...from his father's descriptions of battle, imprisonment and torture in Vietnam. The Senator's book, Faith of My Fathers, dryly relates the experience of "small pieces of hot shrapnel" tearing "into my legs and chest" and tells how, in solitary confinement, "the first few weeks are the hardest," as "the onset of despair is immediate." Not exactly a prime recruiting tool for your kids. Still, when it comes to them, McCain the elder is stoic. "I don't think there's anything unusual about Jimmy," he says. "There are, thank God, lots of young men and women like...
...That last mile is the hardest one, and even rich countries can be caught off-guard?witness Hurricane Katrina. Indonesia, with its 54,716 km of often densely populated and earthquake-prone coastline, is particularly exposed to the threat of local tsunamis. "There need to be sirens or SMS messages on cell phones or even Internet warnings," says Arthur Lerner-Lam, director of the Center for Hazards and Risk Research at Columbia University. "The public has to be aware of what to do, and that's education." In Indonesia, such educational programs are only in place on Sumatra, which bore...