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...limelight, concentrating on passions such as vegetarian food, watching Hindi movies and raising a family. Anil, two years younger, married a former film actress, keeps fit by jogging in public and is often seen with socialites and politicians. Earlier this year, he became a member of India's upper house of Parliament...
Getting an HIV test has never been easier. With the new OraQuick Advance, a health professional simply swabs the inside of a person's mouth along the upper and lower gums and then inserts the stick into a vial of solution that tests for antibodies to the HIV-1 and HIV-2 virus strains. Within 20 minutes, the results appear on the stick. (Two reddish-purple lines indicate a positive result.) The OraQuick's accuracy rate: over...
Harvard may no longer be the same institution that once transformed children of elite families into new generations of elite. But the socioeconomic makeup of today’s student body indicates that a Harvard education remains largely a privilege of the upper-middle class and wealthier. It’s precisely because of the University’s inexcusable under-representation of students from lower-income families that Byerly Hall deserves applause for its recent efforts to rectify this imbalance. And the news last week of a nearly 50 percent increase in early applicants who requested fee-waivers...
...Libya's fans insist the possibilities are real. In the Corinthia--Libya's only luxury hotel, boasting $300-a-night rooms--Western executives crowd the lobby, rubbing shoulders with politicians and diplomats. The U.S. liaison office, the prelude to a real embassy, now operates out of bedrooms on an upper floor of the Corinthia. Two sparsely furnished suites serve as the temporary digs for Marathon Oil and ConocoPhillips, both of which suspended their large Libyan oil operations when U.S. sanctions were imposed in 1986. "Nobody really hates Americans here," says Abdullah Salim el-Badri, chairman of the country's National...
...need capital." But Libya does need modern technological know-how and experienced manpower--the kinds of resources that big outside oil firms can provide. "We are strong enough to bargain," says Seif, who knows how valuable his country's crude is to the West. Who will command the upper hand in the negotiations remains to be seen. But with both sides motivated to get the oil pumping, Libya's importance to the world economy, and to America, will only grow...