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...years since, lethal injection has become the standard method in the U.S., although other types of executions can still be carried out in some states. Prisoners in some jurisdictions can choose their method of execution, and the vast majority opt for lethal injection. In all, 936 out of the 1,107 U.S. prisoners executed since 1977 have died by the method, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Just five U.S. inmates have been executed any other way since 2000 - all by the electric chair - although other options are still on the books in some states, including the firing squad...
...Cartagena, hundreds of seagulls swarm the same patch of water six days a week, waiting for a boat to arrive and uncoil a long, plastic tube into the water. As sardines and mackerel are pumped into the deep, the water begins to churn. Hundreds of bluefin tuna, circling in vast cages beneath the water's surface, duke it out for their daily meal. This is a tuna ranch, a method that started in the Mediterranean in 1996 and now dominates the Atlantic bluefin industry. Today there are 70 registered ranches in the Mediterranean alone (and more in Mexico, Japan...
What is getting lost in all the shouting, though, is that its effects would be limited. The vast majority of Americans--those who get their coverage through larger employers--would not even be eligible to participate at first. And it wouldn't be free: those who enrolled would have to pay premiums, just as they would to a private insurance company...
...project is considered a landmark because the government and the vast majority of Kenyan people have long refused to address homosexuality in the fight against AIDS. Sex between men is illegal in Kenya - punishable by up to 14 years in prison - and is seen by many as a Western-imported, morally wrong behavior that is limited to areas visited by tourists. (See TIME's pictures of Africa's AIDS crisis...
...officials say the country is in the middle of a full-blown HIV/AIDS epidemic, with about 7% of the population now infected and only 15% of those people even aware that they are HIV positive. While the vast majority of HIV transmissions are through heterosexual sex or intravenous drug use, research conducted in 2007 suggests that the spread of the disease through gay sex is far more common than skeptics believe. Fifteen percent of all new HIV infections each year are thought to be among men who have sex with men. And because some men who engage...