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...Thembi's AIDS Diary" was first broadcast on National Public Radio in 2006. Over the next few years, more than 50 million people in a dozen countries heard her story. "Maybe people need someone they can relate to--someone who is just like them--to spell it out to them," she said. "I felt like I owed it to everyone to just be heard." In South Africa, she became a role model for young people living with HIV. But all that recognition still couldn't protect...
...While those dwindling numbers may spell the death of India's traditional weaving skills, women in Delhi embrace the change as a sign of progress. "There is a general perception that you would consider a woman in Western formal wear more empowered than her more traditional counterparts," says Kriti Budhiraja, 20, a political science student at Delhi University. And to be fair, the sari industry is not exactly putting up a fight. It's exiting the stage slowly and almost imperceptibly, with the exception perhaps of Indian soap operas, in which every woman is dressed in an impeccably ironed...
...organization, is not the political force that it once was, but its opposition could nonetheless complicate the push for overall reform. So as much as Obama is trying to stay with broad campaign themes emphasizing the larger need for health-care reform, he's also going to have to spell out more clearly where he stands on some of its tougher questions. In fact, that kind of reckoning may come as early as Monday, when he reaches the next stop on his health-care campaign trail - a speech at the AMA's 158th annual meeting in Chicago...
...picture a generous 85% approval rating. (The Will Ferrell Land of the Lost, the weekend's other big release, has so far earned an almost historically abysmal 6% - that's right, six. As in: You got every answer wrong on this test, young man, and you didn't even spell your name right.) The reviewers see The Hangover as a return to top form by director Todd Phillips, whose raucous buddy comedy Old School was Ferrell's first real hit. On the new film: "Ninety minutes of pure perverse laughter." -Julian Roman, MovieWeb. "Just might be the funniest movie...
...most widely used English phrase in Thailand? Did you know that one time, Yale decided to do something cool and it failed? Did you know that I went to Yale once, farted, and I killed the one flower that was living there? Did you know that if you spell Yale backwards, it spells Elay, which is Turkish for butt nugget? I heard this story from a senior who graduated a couple of years back. He was talking to me about how it was before, in the time of no time. Everything was everything, as the elders once foretold it would...