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...They did this because they don't want us to come back," said Iosif Zadashvili, a resident of Kurta, which lies off the main road. The white-haired man sat dazed in the Georgian town of Gori on a chair made for a child, his lower lip trembling, as he related how Russian soldiers had stood by while Ossetian irregulars beat him in the courtyard of his home, knocking out all of his lower front teeth...
...product of efforts like these, activists hope to lower infection rates not only of HIV but also of other sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis, which affects men who have sex with men in the U.S. at high rates, according to Chris Beyrer, who directs the AIDS research center at Johns Hopkins University. The problem exists elsewhere in the West: data presented by Dutch researchers this month at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City suggest that hepatitis C and HIV co-infections have become increasingly common among the Netherlands' homosexual men. At one Amsterdam clinic, run by the Public...
...accounts for less than 1% of deaths yearly in the U.S. - there were about 11 suicides per 100,000 people in 2005, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - and the suicide success rate among Asian Americans (as well as Latinos and African Americans) is actually slightly lower than that of white Americans...
...financial services sector trimming costs amid turmoil in the credit markets, both the demand and rental values for City offices are dwindling. British Land - itself hit by a $1.1 billion loss for the three months to July as the value of its portfolio tumbled - reckons it'll score lower construction costs and higher rents for the 47-story building by sitting out the downturn...
...candidates on Saturday, and Obama could well take advantage of the opportunity. In closed-door meetings throughout the campaign, he has impressed pro-life religious leaders with his argument that measures to prevent unwanted pregnancies and to support women who want to carry their babies to term could actually lower abortion rates more substantially than purist approaches that seek to overturn Roe v. Wade and outlaw abortion...