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...more than 8 out of 10 cases. In Southern and Southeast Asia, where the epidemic is growing more rapidly than anywhere else, heterosexual contact is also the dominant mode of transmission. Among the prostitutes in Bombay's red-light district, 25% to 30% are HIV positive. In the poorer sections of Nairobi, Kenya, infection rates among prostitutes run higher than...
More resourceful parents will do research and make more informed choices about schools. And it will be tough luck for the students whose parents are less aggressive. Parents with money will provide the transportation necessary for their children to get to the best schools; poorer parents will have more limited choices...
...week Speth's institute will publish a "Compact for a New World," a proposed model for a way rich and poor nations might come to mutually beneficial agreements in Rio on the environment and development. Meeting in Washington last June, a group of activists, businessmen and politicians agreed that poorer southern nations would have an easier time accepting unpalatable initiatives on population stabilization, climate change and deforestation in return for a substantial quid pro quo. Its elements: debt forgiveness, direct financial aid to help end poverty, and technical help to reduce the poor nations' role in global environmental problems...
...must reject the decade of the 1980s as one of greed and self-centeredness, where the rich got richer, the poor got poorer and the middle class got squeezed out even more," he said. "We have deepseated economic problems in this country...
...Parsonnet, though she points out that not everyone infected with the bacterium develops cancer. Indeed, the bug, which may enter the body through dirty water or human contact, is extremely common: it is present in the gut of 50% of Americans and of up to 90% of people in poorer regions of Asia and Latin America. Researchers believe chronic inflammation, caused by the bacterium, combines with other risk factors, including a salty diet low in fresh fruit and vegetables, to cause the cancer...