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...only insertive sex with other men, as opposed to those who have only receptive sex or both. Millett's review suggested that among the former group, circumcision lowered H.I.V.-infection risk by 29%, a finding that also showed statistical nonsignificance. But targeting that distinct population in future studies may prove useful for distilling the specific effect of circumcision - and perhaps for future public-health strategies. "For every insertive man who is protected, there might be a receptive man who isn't infected, for the same reason why women get protected...in other words, from a herd-immunity phenomenon," says...
...Nobody should frame male circumcision as some sort of panacea," says Vermund. "But it may prove to be one more tool in the toolbox...if you can add it to behavioral risk reduction, prompt diagnosis and access to care, it may be the combination needed to really knock the socks off the H.I.V. epidemic...
Poor people in America are too often seen as parasites who must prove that they deserve assistance, even when the job market, the education and health care system, and the shortage of affordable housing make survival tenuous for so many Americans. But the help we deign to provide comes with strings that tie up poor people’s worth as human beings into their status as dependents. We suddenly gain the authority to tell them how they ought to live and even attempt to sterilize them, as if a human’s worth to a society were solely...
...caught yourself flipping to the inner blurb entitled “A Note on the Cover”—it’s probably because the building is brand new, just out of its Tyvek wrap and with a few stray hard hats lying around to prove it. Designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), San Francisco, it’s doors opened to students on September 15, 2008, the first day of classes.Located just beyond the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH), the building defines the far end of the grassy quadrangle that stretches from HMNH...
...That is, after all, what this phenomenon boils down to: what makes you happy. As ecstatic as California’s gay community was in June, November may prove to be a somber affair. The economy is collapsing around us, gas prices are through the roof, and who knows what the world will look like tomorrow. Who’s to begrudge a little kiss...