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...Lourdes, the biggest of France's 937 pilgrimage shrines, annual attendance in the past two years has jumped 10%, to 5.5 million. Many new visitors are East Europeans, now free to express their beliefs and to travel. Despite the inevitable attraction of Lourdes for the ill and aged, one-tenth of the faithful these days are 25 or younger. "We also have new kinds of pilgrimages," reports Loic Bondu, a spokesman at the site. "They dance, they ) sing, they praise out loud. They're more exuberant...
...cause for concern is that heterosexual transmission is the rule, not the exception, in most countries affected by the disease. Figures released by the World Health Organization last week show that 75% of the people who have the AIDS virus worldwide were infected heterosexually. In Africa, where one-tenth of the world's population accounts for half the estimated 10 million AIDS infections around the globe, heterosexual transmission is responsible for more than 8 out of 10 cases. In Southern and Southeast Asia, where the epidemic is growing more rapidly than anywhere else, heterosexual contact is also the dominant mode...
...agent of disaster is a 3-mm (one-tenth-in.) insect known to scientists as the poinsettia strain of the sweet-potato whitefly but to farmers as the Superbug. Millions of these voracious insects have spread over the Imperial Valley, massing on the undersides of leaves and sucking plants dry, weakening or killing them in the process. Farmers first noticed the flies getting worse in July, and by September swarms of them looked like white clouds. They covered windshields and got stuck between people's teeth. Farm workers had trouble inhaling and eventually had to wear masks. Not since...
...These are elections in which the difference between the ninth and tenth candidate can hinge on 50 votes. So the students' 500 to 600 votes can be decisive," he said...
...represent one-tenth of the people wherever they are," says Reeves...