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...suited college businesswomen, a frustrating rainstorm, and dreaded grad school essays. All of her applications were in on time, and, she said, “The conference was a success.” Borden’s success in the extracurricular realm hasn’t even taken a toll on her social life. “I really like to go out,” she said, giggling. During reading period last spring, the government major turned 21. Faced with a stack of policy books, she refused to lock herself in her room. “We went...
...President's p.r. push on job numbers may test the modern adage "It's the economy, stupid." This week, it just may not be. The death toll in Iraq climbs daily. Corruption investigations are metastasizing on the Hill. Politicians aspiring to higher office jockey more aggressively for broader support. And, as outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan admonished his final G-7 conference in London Friday, increasing budget deficits and unsteady trade imbalances, unchecked, may threaten the global economic livelihood in the long...
...more than 60 percent of those currently infected. Already the poorest region in the world, sub-Saharan Africa continues to see its efforts at economic growth frustrated by a disease that kills farmers, teachers, and businessmen in the prime of their working lives. And HIV/AIDS reserves an especially cruel toll for society’s most vulnerable. Gender discrimination, physiological susceptibility, and economic inequality have combined to affect a profound demographic shift in the disease; almost 60 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and worldwide, women continue to be infected at a higher rate...
AVIAN FLU The possibility of a flu pandemic dominated the news for much of the fall, although the death toll from the virus that has health officials most worried--the so-called H5N1 strain--remains vastly greater in birds than humans. So far, 132 people in Southeast Asia and China are known to have been infected, and more than half of them have died. Meanwhile, millions of chickens and ducks have been slaughtered in a last-ditch attempt to keep the virus from spreading--an effort made more difficult by migrating flocks of wild birds that have carried the virus...
...President's annus horribilis nears what must be a blessedly welcome end for him and his aides, they have just a month to try to salvage what had been a promising postvictory year. Instead, Social Security reform died; the U.S. death toll in Iraq passed 2,000; Katrina exposed the weakness of the Administration's bench players; a Supreme Court nominee fell; a White House aide resigned under indictment. Even Karl Rove's aura of imperturbability began to melt, not only because he is under investigation in the CIA-leak case but also--and more gravely for the G.O.P.--because...