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...year nationwide. At least half of all sexually active men and women will get HPV during their lifetime, though about 90% of HPV infections clear naturally within two years. But the virus is more critical for women, 80% of whom will have had an infection by the time they reach 50. Recurrent infections can lead to cervical cancer, of which there are 12,200 new cases each year, resulting in 4,100 deaths...
...Sarkozy's desire to reach out to Bush may have been one reason he chose to vacation in Wolfesboro, New Hampshire, just an hour's drive from the Bush family compound. "There was no political purpose to this meeting, which became possible because President Sarkozy is vacationing not far from the Bush home," says Elysée spokesman David Martinon. "The idea was for the two men to meet informally, in a friendly manner, and discuss international topics, and manage their disagreements and contradictions in a calm and cordial...
...reports of corrupt politics in developing countries seem to reach newsstands with alarming frequency, Eric D. Werker ’00, an assistant professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has a rather radical plan he thinks will clean up the political scene...
...ethnic and religious communities that French politicians so fear. Defenders of the headscarf ban are quick to point to private parochial schools as alternatives for those pupils who are unable to comply for religious reasons. But marginalizing into separate schools the very individuals to whom the Republic ought to reach out the most might not be such a good idea in the long term. As Ali el-Baz, a North African labor leader, was quick to point out in an interview last month, the French-born children of Muslim immigrants don’t want to stay separated from...
...estimates that 1.1 billion people around the world lack safe drinking water, a number that could reach 5 billion by 2025. Very few of them live in the U.S., however. Turn on a tap almost anywhere in America, and you'll get clean, safe water--a minor miracle on much of the planet. But you wouldn't know that from the giant plastic bottles of water that many of us haul around as if preparing for a stroll in the Sahara. Americans drank more than 8.25 billion gal. (more than 31 billion L) of bottled water...