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...getting worse. Attacks on the Americans and their Afghan allies are increasing. The enemy is becoming better organized and better armed. Despite the presence of 8,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the influence of al-Qaeda and the Taliban is spreading. A new U.N. security report reckons that one-third of the country is too dangerous for aid distribution...
...realm. He announced an ambitious program last week to help developing countries clear two major obstacles in fighting AIDS: the high cost of antiretroviral drugs and the low quality of their own health-care systems. His foundation has enlisted four drug companies, which will offer AIDS-fighting drugs at one-third the usual price. Four African countries and more than a dozen in the Caribbean region have signed on for the program...
...ideal is to have one-third gay boys, one-third gay girls and one-third straights...
...from $944 million to $68 million in the first six months of the year. While North American sales accounted for just 20% of Volkswagen's $101 billion in global revenues in 2002, they delivered an outsized 27% of its $5.4 billion operating profits. And VW clearly aims higher: around one-third of its $1.6 billion global ad budget is spent in the U.S. The man in charge of revving up Volkswagen is CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder, who took over from domineering Ferdinand Piech in April 2002. A personable, goateed man who ran BMW from 1993 to 1999, Pischetsrieder, 55, knows...
...months; while France's broadcasting regulator csa has given approval for Pink TV to show porn, it's still not satisfied that the channel's encryption system is foolproof. Undaunted, Garnier says it hopes to gather 180,000 subscribers in the next three years. "The ideal is to have one-third gay boys, one-third gay girls and one-third straight viewership," he says. Of course, gay themes aren't restricted to gay networks. Mainstream TV's attitude toward gays started growing up in 1997, when American comic Ellen DeGeneres came out of the closet in her self-titled sitcom...