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...tricky virus to manage. Sankaranarayanan points out that, first, it is exceedingly common; there are some 100 different strains of HPV, of which 30 or 40 affect the vast majority of sexually active people during the course of their lifetimes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that as many as 80% of sexually active women (and 50% of all men and women) will be infected with HPV at some point. Second, the body most often clears the HPV virus on its own, without ever causing cancer or other symptoms (some strains of HPV also cause genital warts). "More...
...this season, Pike has come up with 43 saves, and is ranked ninth on the all-time Harvard list with 359 stopped shots. His 5.52 goals-against average is tops in the nation. If all goes well, Harvard’s midfield and defense will be able to prevent an aggressive Big Red offense from getting anywhere near Pike’s goal. “We’re going to try to focus on picking up our ground balls the first time, opposed to sort of missing them,” Smith said. “We?...
...some women's health advocates say that evidence isn't strong enough, calling for further study and a national, trackable registry of egg donors. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) logs the number of donated eggs transferred to infertile women each year - there were some 15,500 in 2006, the most recent year for which data are available - no one knows how many individual donors those eggs came from, who they were or whether they were exceeding industry guidelines of six donations in a lifetime. (The guidelines are intended to limit the number of offspring from...
...Stimulus Spending As an economic theory, the concept is widely accepted: When consumer and corporate spending collapses, government should increase its spending to prevent a downward economic spiral. The real controversy comes with the next questions: Which government, and by how much? Economists at the International Monetary Fund have recommended globally coordinated stimulus spending of about 2% of GDP to counteract the recession. But so far, that challenge has only been accepted to varying degrees. As a group, European countries, including members of the G-20 like France and Germany, have proposed lower rates of stimulus spending, both this year...
...Billions of dollars of investment will be needed not only to help keep the country's economy growing but to prevent other infrastructure-related accidents like train derailment or boats capsizing - both of which occur with alarming frequency. More than 200 are believed to have died in January when an overloaded ferry capsized in bad weather off the coast of Sulawesi. While natural catastrophes like flooding and landslides take a human toll every year in Indonesia, many say manmade disasters like the March 27 dam collapse can be prevented. "The country is taking the right steps but the speed will...