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...What is the single most important thing we can all do to help fight HIV/AIDS? -Kairy Walker, MiamiBecome educated. There are so many myths and misconceptions about HIV/AIDS. The idea that you can get aids from holding hands or sharing food still runs rampant all over the world. In fact, we had to go to great lengths to protect Ana - and that isn't her real name - because of the discrimination against kids with HIV/AIDS...
...While the military élite bunkers itself in rarefied surroundings, ordinary Burmese are suffering. Educational funding has dried up, and the World Health Organization estimates that the junta annually spends a maximum of $10 per person on health care. As a result, killer diseases like malaria and tuberculosis run rampant, and roughly half a million people are infected with HIV. Nearly one-third of children under five years of age are malnourished; of those who are healthy, some rural youngsters are forced to toil as child labor. The urban middle class doesn't fare too much better. Although Burma...
...China well and that he has done his best to manage the fissures that a quarter-century of breakneck economic growth have torn in Chinese society. But far, far more needs to be done to deal with the country's daunting list of crises--a ravaged environment, rising inflation, rampant corruption and widespread social unrest...
...Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Leviathan on the Right, a book about Bush's rampant spending, doesn't buy Bush's commitment since, as he points out, the President actually advocates a $25 billion expansion of the program - just not the $35 billion Democrats want. "When you look at the battle over SCHIP - he actually wants to increase spending," Tanner said. "'I will only increase this by X percent,' - this is not a rallying cry to fiscal conservatives...
...criticized the mass marketing of college athletes (billboards of Heisman trophy candidates, memorabilia being sold) without any compensation for the athletes themselves. He challenged the myth of the student athlete, blasting a culture where athletes take easy classes if they even attend them at all, grade inflation is rampant, and players jump ship to the NBA the first chance they get (despite the league’s new draft eligibility age requirement, supposedly there to improve college ball and teach players the right way to play the game).The speech, which lasted roughly an hour and a half...