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...feasibility of late-night travel in the Boston area. While we would welcome late-night buses running to and from Harvard Square, we would encourage members of the committee to think daringly and decisively and to give Boston adequate late-night transportation both above and below ground. This pilot scheme has already been in the works for four years, and another lengthy delay would not be in anyone's best interests...
Wolf is right-the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has dithered over its pilot schemes for long enough. As soon as it is feasible, we would like to see extended hours every day for both the buses and the trains. Our feet and our wallets demand...
...decade, the world had a chance to halt the spread of AIDS in Africa. At the time, 4 million Africans were HIV-positive. The World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS, headed by the visionary Jonathan Mann, worked with governments across Africa to plan national prevention programs. The pilot program was launched in Uganda, the epicenter of the crisis. Health workers entered training for a continent-wide mobilization to stop the epidemic...
...million Africans are infected; 18 million have died; and 13 million orphans struggle to cope without their parents. The toll is set to exceed that of the Black Death. One of the only success stories on the continent is that of Uganda, where those trained to work on the pilot program stayed on and, with support from Uganda's president and international donors, cut the rate of new infections by more than half. If the program had continued, it is possible that the rest of sub-Saharan Africa could look like Uganda...
...zone is an accident waiting to happen, because Iraqi air defense personnel are growing bolder and the law of averages suggests that the U.S. and Britain - the only two members of the original Gulf War alliance that still patrol the zone - will sooner or later lose a pilot. That against a backdrop of concern that the "no-fly" zone no longer forms part of any comprehensive military-political strategy against Baghdad. Because despite congressional enthusiasm for the Iraqi National Congress, there's a great degree of skepticism in Washington - particularly in the Pentagon - over whether they're even a serious...