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...stem the catastrophic tide of the African AIDS epidemic. According to a recent Boston Globe article, CARE lost a $50 million contract for combating AIDS, as government opted to grant $200 million to faith-based programs, which will advocate the divinely inspired “abstinence-only” method of disease control, after heavy public pressure from evangelical Christians...
...favorite method of gauging the vitality of India's publishing industry is to weigh it. That's what I did with the October issue of the local edition of Cosmopolitan. At 1,016 pages it landed with a solid thunk on my desk, evoking a mixture of shock and curiosity. Shock that anyone would need a thousand pages-plus of sex advice, fashion and beauty tips; and curiosity as to the secret of Cosmo's success given the struggle so many publishers in America face over declining readership and fickle ad sales. The verdict? October's Cosmo weighed a hefty...
...voters themselves. But in a venture this large, trouble is most likely to come from just plain human error, a fact often overlooked in an environment as charged and conspiratorial as America is in today. Four years after Congress passed a law requiring every state to vote by a method more reliable than the punch-card system that paralyzed Florida and the nation in 2000, the 2006 election is shaping up into a contest not just between Democrats and Republicans but also between people who believe in technology and those who fear machines cannot be trusted to count votes...
...worries that the new Gen Ed courses will focus so exclusively on the “outcome” of science that they will ignore “the skill set” of the scientific method...
...Another approach, practiced by an Iranian-American friend of mine, is the "keeping secrets" method. This involves teaching your kids that the values you teach at home - that alcohol is alright in moderation, that satellite television is acceptable, that a divorced mother has the right to date - are part of a special, private world of which they should never speak outside. This makes a value out of privacy, and sidesteps the delicate task of teaching why it's okay to lie in certain situations, but not in others. None of this wards off the day your son returns home...