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...Percentage of South Koreans who are online, one of the highest rates of Internet use in the world 1 in 10 Number of South Koreans who say they have been victims of "cyberviolence," including hate mail, death threats and sexual harassment...
...obesity using a standard height-weight calculation known as body mass index, or BMI. At the time, figures from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) not only showed that the incidence of child obesity had doubled in the U.S. since 1980, they revealed that Arkansas had one of the highest rates in the nation: 20.9% of the state's youngsters were overweight while another 17% fell into the borderline "at risk" category. Nationally the figures were 17% and 13%, respectively. Originally envisioned as a new kind of grade on the child's report card, Arkansas's program was revised...
...Before Katrina, 102 of the city's schools were considered academic failures, the city had one of the nation's highest drop-out rates, most eighth-grade students had below-average test scores, and the city had had 10 superintendents in as many years, Cowen told a U.S. Senate subcommittee last month...
...Preventing HIV is the only way to keep the number of new infections that occur each year - 4 million - from growing. And yet prevention strategies, always the ugly stepsister to treatment programs, have not really taken hold in the developing nations where the rate of infection is highest. An effective vaccine, of course, is the ultimate prevention weapon, but as the Gates' pointed out, an HIV shot is still a long way off. In the meantime, microbicides could be one way to co-opt ARVS into the prevention war; these are chemical compounds, usually in the form...
...child, some experts believe that using ARVs before exposure to HIV may have the same effect in protecting partners. Five trials, all involving two compounds, Tenofovir or Truvada, are now underway in Thailand, Botswana, Peru, West Africa and even the U.S. It's being tested in groups at highest risk of transmitting the virus - commercial sex workers and gay men. "What you want is a high level of ARV in the blood and body secretions, so that when you are exposed to HIV, the ARV will kill the virus," explains Dr. Peter Piot, director of UNAIDS. "Because at infection...