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...than an hour, they cruise near the launch site until all looks clear. Then a small team walks into a flat field to aim a rack of homemade launching tubes toward the lights of the Baghdad airport, home to U.S. chopper squadrons, supply units and the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group, less than two miles away. The insurgents load three air-to-air rockets they have modified to launch from the ground, flash a signal with car headlights and disappear. A second team creeps in to fire the volley, while a security detail armed with assault rifles and machine guns...
...part of that exchange, Lu's CDC team shared with Ho, in the first presentation of its kind to anyone outside the Chinese government, the details of AIDS penetration in Yunnan. Last March Lu informed Ho that in a 2002 survey of high-risk populations, 43% of IV drug users had shared needles with others in the past month, and that among female sex workers, 89% were unaware of their risk of contracting HIV. A majority of sex workers, about 60%, reported inconsistent condom use. Since they have begun collecting data, says Lu, there has been...
...doesn't expect miracles. Many of the cultural traditions that make it difficult for the Chinese people and their government to openly address a sexually transmitted disease are too deeply rooted for one man to change. A recent survey by Futures Group Europe and Horizon Research Group revealed that 20% of Chinese still have not heard of AIDS and that only 5% have had an HIV test. Ho is convinced that even if just part of his program is put in place, it will save lives. "If we had known how difficult the process was going...
...nation is among Europe's fastest and cheapest places to start a business. Setting up a limited company in the U.K., says the DTI, takes one week and costs €28, compared with an E.U. average of 25 days and €883. Earlier this year, a World Bank survey named Britain among the 10 least-regulated business nations. Yet talk to a British small-business person and you'll get an earful - largely about red tape. A recent Small Business Service Omnibus survey revealed that 10% of British small businesses feel they are so choked by regulation and taxes that...
...Gizmos for the Real World "Coolest Inventions" was an interesting survey of up-to-date products [Nov. 24]. I especially liked the item on Toyota's Intelligent Parking Assist, the optional self-parking feature in the new Prius that uses software to allow a car to parallel park itself while the driver doesn't even have to touch the steering wheel. This technology will be a big seller, especially for drivers like my mother, who faces many difficulties in parallel parking. Koji Yamazaki Toyohashi, Japan...