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Chikoka brakes his dusty, diesel-belching Kabwe Transport 18-wheeler to a stop at the dark roadside rest on the edge of Francistown, where the international trade routes converge and at least 43% of adults are HIV-positive. He is a cheerful man even after 12 hard hours behind the wheel freighting rice from Durban. He's been on the road for two weeks and will reach his destination in Congo next Thursday. At 39, he is married, the father of three and a long-haul trucker for 12 years. He's used...
Chikoka nods his head toward another woman sitting beside a stack of cardboard cartons. "We like better to go to them," he says. They are the "businesswomen," smugglers with gray-market cases of fruit and toilet paper and toys that they need to transport somewhere up the road. "They come to us, and we negotiate privately about carrying their goods." It's a no-cash deal, he says. "They pay their bodies to us." Chikoka shrugs at a suggestion that the practice may be unhealthy. "I been away two weeks, madam. I'm human. I'm a man. I have...
...About 53% of home-heating systems in the U.S. use natural gas, which in past years has been the least expensive fuel. Gas also burns cleaner, and the furnaces are simpler to monitor than oil furnaces. Yet because parts of the U.S. (especially the Northeast) lack the infrastructure to transport natural gas, for many the main options are electricity and oil. Of the two, electricity is generally more expensive, less environmentally friendly...
Once that happens, Smith said, Harvard protocol calls for an exam proctor to transport the student to UHS and arrange for them to be admitted. If the student has seen the exam, exam conditions must be maintained in the hospital room until the situation is resolved...
Raburn has already raised $120 million for the Eclipse. A test version should be flying by 2003, followed soon by the real thing. "The Eclipse will change the way air transport works," says Raburn, 51. "You will think about using your Eclipse almost as quickly as you use a taxi." Raburn, the son of a McDonnell Douglas engineer, started flying at 17 and later became the 18th employee hired by Microsoft. He left the company in 1982, then worked at Lotus Development Corp. and for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It was when he met famed enginemaker Sam Williams...