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...Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi on fighting myths and ignorance: Rumors are hard to kill, and are especially deadly when they involve AIDS. Explaining why a promising young filmmaker refused treatment after being diagnosed with the disease, Shanghvi writes: "The more time he spent on the net, the more he grew vulnerable to rumors that AIDS was only a conspiracy unleashed by pharmaceutical giants to make money off homosexual men." 4. Sonia Faleiro on stigmas and labels: Of a Bombay sex worker, Faleiro writes, "If she talks to me she may call herself a 'sex worker' and 'social worker,' terms...
...skull. Another depicted a roller-coaster, aptly titled “Ride of a Lifetime,” winding its way from a forest—the lungs—through a pumping heart. Macaulay described the arduous process of learning about the body, which involved long hours spent sketching. “If I can’t draw it, I can’t understand it.” He added, wryly: “I can’t wait to tackle the economic system.” But when asked what the future holds, Macaulay said...
...spent most of the hike down the rim of Qaddisha Valley worrying not so much what would happen if I slipped and fell down the mountain gorge, but about the social protocols of visiting with a hermit. After all, hermits, by definition have chosen solitude over company - particularly strangers popping in uninvited. But Our Lady of Hawka Monastery, a 13th century shrine built into the side of the valley's red sandstone cliffs and one of the region's last functioning hermitages, is considered something of a national treasure in Lebanon. Even if phoning ahead to arrange an audience...
...Branchflower said it was out of his jurisdiction to pass judgment on the First Gentleman, but his report paints an extralegal role for Todd Palin that would have made the Hillary Clinton of 1992 blush. In the report, the head of Gov. Palin's security detail says that Todd spent about half of his time in the governor's office - not at a desk (he didn't have one), but at a long conference table on one side of the office, with his own phone to make and receive calls. It became a shadow office, the informal Department of Getting...
Ahtisaari, a former primary-school teacher, joined the Finnish Foreign Ministry as a diplomat in the mid-'60s. His first peace mediation job was as U.N. envoy to Namibia, where guerrillas were fighting the apartheid government of South Africa. He spent 20 years abroad as a diplomat for Finland and the U.N. before contesting and winning the presidential election in 1994, serving one term before returning to mediation work full time...