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Awareness programs have done a lot to promote acceptance of those affected by AIDS, but experts say we're still far from making the real changes in cultural attitudes and practices that can impact the epidemic. Foremost among such cultural roadblocks is the role of women, who, in many developing societies, are economically dependent on their spouses and don't often demand that they practice safe sex. Dr. Geeta Gupta, president of the International Center for Research on Women, notes that women bear the heaviest burden of AIDS around the world. "Women still have problems discussing safe sex with their...
...claims are in the WMD-proliferation business. According to intelligence reports, these companies are controlled by, or linked to, high-ranking officials in Tehran, including members of the Iran Revolutionary Guard's business arm, which has commercial interests ranging from oil and gas to manufacturing to real estate. The impact of this unilateral ban is indirect - Iranian companies haven't been allowed to do business in the U.S. for decades. But a similar gambit appeared to work against North Korea. In that case, the U.S. blacklisted Banco Delta Asia, a Macau bank where North Korean government and military officials...
Like other publications, this very page recently questioned the role and tactics of record companies in the digital music marketplace. The Crimson may be cavalier about the impact of theft on our colleagues in the music community. After having watched thousands of regular, working class employees laid off and no longer in the music profession, we are not.Whatever one might see as the future for record companies, the importance of their creative and business role to date cannot be denied. Record companies have invested enormous sums of money to find and develop talent, and to record and market music. They...
...education is America’s fifth largest export. In addition, over the last 15 years, one quarter of U.S. venture-backed public companies—which generate about $130 billion in annual revenue in addition to employing thousands of Americans—were founded by foreign nationals. The impact of foreign workers is particularly pronounced in high-tech industries; two-thirds of electrical engineering and one-half of computer science doctoral students in the U.S. were foreign-born in 2005. When restrictive quotas are put in place, these jobs go elsewhere. This year, Microsoft opened a new research...
...They are preoccupied by the addition of 10 new E.U. members this year, by the tussle over a new European Constitution and by the collapse of the Growth and Stability Pact, which imposed rigid discipline--overly rigid, critics say--on governments to curb deficits. Europeans are concerned about the impact of the falling dollar on their exports, but they have yet to take action to stem the tide. "Be patient with Europe," pleaded Blanque. After all, he said, economic-reform efforts in France, Germany and elsewhere are under way, but they will take time to yield tangible results...