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...used to keep the filling fresh during the winter months. And they didn't make bland pies, either: documents show that the Pilgrims used dried fruit, cinnamon, pepper and nutmeg to season their meats. Further, as the colonies spread out, the pie's role as a means to showcase local ingredients took hold and with it came a proliferation of new, sweet pies. A cookbook from 1796 listed only three types of sweet pies; a cookbook written in the late 1800s featured 8 sweet pie varieties; and by the 1947 the Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking listed 65 different varieties...
Several years ago in the town of Merauke, on the southern coast of Papua province in Indonesia, a young woman was diagnosed with HIV. Upon learning that she had been infected by her boyfriend, according to a local doctor, the woman decided to take "revenge." She began sleeping with as many men as possible, asking only for a copy of her partner's identity card. Shortly before she died, she told her family to look under her pillow, where they found 50 photocopies - evidence of her self-proclaimed campaign to infect as many men as possible before dying...
...bill that would legalize implanting microchips into HIV-infected people deemed to be purposefully infecting others with the life-threatening virus. "The chip would work similar to the chips they use to track birds and animals considered endangered species," explains the doctor, who also sits in the local parliament and proposed legislation to pass the human microchipping. "I don't expect many would be tagged, but after coming across so many HIV cases in my years of practice, something drastic needs to be done...
...infection rate is 15 times higher than the national average. Not good news in a country with Asia's highest growing HIV-infection rate, but not everyone thinks microchipping is the way to improve the situation. The proposed bill, now with the provincial parliament, has encountered fierce resistance from local health workers, government officials and church leaders, who say the practice would constitute a human rights violation and do little to address Papua's high infection rate. "Two wrongs do not make a right, and the plan to implant HIV people with microchips is definitely wrong," says Elisabeth Pisani...
...Local parliamentarians say they have the support to push the legislation through by the end of the year. If passed, anyone found guilty by a court of law of deliberately spreading the virus could be fined up to 50 million rupiah ($4,000) or given six months in jail. "We need more than just information and condom campaigns," says Komarudin Watubun, the local parliament's deputy chairman who has been leading hearings on the proposal. "Papua is being ravaged by HIV/AIDs and the number of infected keeps going up." Komarudin says the controversial bill may not pass easily, but that...