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...voices, this collection provides a uniquely intimate glimpse into a disease that is either sterilized by statistics or ignored altogether. Each story reveals a government and culture that, like so many other nations, still denies HIV's impact. Yet even with its pages filled with so much injustice and pain, the book also contains its fair share of triumphant moments. An HIV-positive doctor who fought for - and won - his constitutional right to marry a "negative" woman; a group of HIV-positive children who found a home when no one else would take them, a sex worker who braves police...
...Huang Chi-lin, a translator in Taipei, is certainly feeling the pain. "I'm very afraid for my savings and especially my daughter's future," Huang says. "I don't know if my money will keep its value. I invest, but now I don't know how to invest because everything is going down, so I keep watching and worrying about it." Other Asians are taking a philosophical view of the worsening crisis. Dorothy Wong, 49, a psychiatric counselor in Hong Kong, says that a global crash could change laissez-faire attitudes about money. "I think the world needed this...
Braced for Pain This isn't the first crisis London has lived through, and it won't be the last. At his Guildhall office, policy chief Fraser talks about his 45 years of experience in the City and says, "You just have to sit it out. It recovers." But he acknowledges that "it's a painful process and we are only at the beginning." The impact won't be felt across the board, either. Barring a financial cataclysm, London will retain its position as Europe's preeminent financial center for players from around the world. Some wealth management may migrate...
...Pittsburgh region had to face a new economic reality. Of course, you don't have to go far to see the face of America's current economic troubles: cross the state line into Ohio, which has a far greater exposure to the American auto industry, and the pain is palpable in industrial shops in Finley and Toledo. They don't have to be told that we're heading for a slowdown; they're already in one. But if Pittsburgh is any indication, there is virtue to going through hard times. The hard part is that it might take a decade...
...expect college endowments will be down, but so will family savings,” he said. “We’re all going to be experiencing the pain...