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...learns to accept the fact that other countries make great movies too, the British Academy has fully embraced the idea that all cinema is world cinema and that some of the best films are made in places where English is the foreign language. So France's La Vie En Rose and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Germany's The Lives of Others, and The Kite Runner, with most of its dialogue in Farsi, competed against the likes of Atonement, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood for a whole slew of awards instead of being relegated...
...intercourse. In 1985, 64 percent of HIV cases were transmitted through sex between two men; heterosexual activity accounted for only 3 percent of transmissions. These statistics no longer hold true. As of 2004, HIV cases arising from male sex dropped to 42 percent, and those arising from heterosexual sex rose to 31 percent. Even more importantly, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now perform two tests on all blood donated in order to detect the presence of HIV (by testing for antibodies and the virus’s genetic material), and the probability of HIV-positive blood going unnoticed...
AMERICAN SCHOLAR CALLED Robert Ball the "undisputed spiritual leader" of Social Security. Ball, who joined the program in 1939 (four years after its creation), rose to become its commissioner under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. He expanded benefits, led the development of Medicare and drafted a bill proposing universal health insurance. Ball was pivotal to the program's 1983 bailout and as recently as last year was drafting alternatives to President Bush's privatization plans, which he detested...
...state, Iowa, he lost there to the under-funded Huckabee by nearly double-digits. The Iowa loss weakened him in New Hampshire, where he has a vacation home. Then when he tried to establish himself as the conservative alternative to McCain in the south on Super Tuesday, Huckabee again rose to defeat him on a bare bones budget...
Total costs at private, four-year universities for this academic year rose on average by 5.9 percent over last year, according to the College Board...