Word: ramps
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...Health experts say China needs to ramp up its efforts to target these groups and others more effectively. In February, the World Health Organization warned Beijing of a steep rise in HIV among gay men unless prevention programs targeting them were greatly improved. Zunyou Wu, director of the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, says new programs are being developed, but that the government still relies heavily on members of the gay community to educate themselves. Sex workers also lack access to programs and materials they need to keep themselves...
...past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp. In this case, I mean the high-minded part literally. And so, a deal: give us drugs, after a certain age - say, 80 - all drugs, any drugs we want. In return, we will give you our driver's licenses. (I mean, can you imagine how terrifying a nation of decrepit, solipsistic...
...Volkswagen Sharan along with its terrified owner. Threatened at gunpoint, the driver, 41, turned his vehicle towards Stuttgart. But heavy traffic made the murderer worried and so they turned back again. After a wild trip down country roads, the car crashed into a roadside ditch on the Autobahn entry ramp near the town of Wendlingen am Neckar, some 24 miles (40 km) from Winnenden. The driver managed to escape to a patrol car nearby, but the shooter vanished in the opposite direction. After killing a salesman, 36, and his client, 46, at a car sales yard in a local business...
...this upsurge in terrorist activity that led Sir Hugh Orde to request the support of the British Army's Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) in the PSNI's intelligence-gathering operations. Sinn Fein - traditionally hostile to any ramp-up of British security forces - reacted with anger. Less than a week before the murder of the soldiers in Antrim, Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness described the use of these special forces as "a major threat...
...March auction for the plant, which was once the nation's largest kosher meat producer and once Postville's major employer, with 968 workers. He predicts it will be a few months before the plant is sold and run by a new owner. Agriprocessors does hope to ramp up hiring and production soon, especially to meet Passover demand. After the raid, the plant ran at reduced capacity but shut down in November, reopening in December with about 300 workers. (See pictures of Hillary Clinton campaigning in Iowa with Bill Clinton...