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...wrap up its week-long salute to Global AIDS day, the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) hosted a screening of the film, “And the Band Played On,” and a talk by one of the first experts to discover the AIDS viral agent. Don Francis, whose research at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the early 1980s led to the identification of the AIDS virus, spoke of the history of AIDS and described the tensions at the CDC when gay men were dying of an unknown epidemic. He lamented in particular...
...minds the verdict of California voters on matters such as tenure for public-school teachers did not weigh heavily. Schwarzenegger's action flicks were among the first Hollywood blockbusters that made it to China courtesy of bootleg videotapes, and the nation rewarded the Austrian-born actor by hosting a week-long Arnold Schwarzenegger Film Festival in 2000-the first and only Chinese event of its kind honoring a Western movie star...
This issue and the summit are centerpieces of a week-long multimedia effort to move public health closer to the top of the national agenda. ABC News and Charlie Rose are scheduled to devote segments of their shows to the conference, while PBS, starting on Nov. 1 at 9 p.m. E.T., will begin running a six-hour series titled Rx for Survival--A Global Health Challenge. Finally, Alicia Keys will hold a concert in New York City benefiting Keep a Child Alive on Nov. 3 with such guests as Usher, Paul Simon and the Agape Children's Choir from Durban...
...administration's high-profile diplomacy will continue later this month when Karen Hughes, who became "Ambassador Hughes" when she was sworn in Friday as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, takes her staff and five networks on a week-long "listening tour" of four cities in the Middle East and Europe. Officials tell TIME that Hughes will bring along "citizen ambassadors," including a representative of the education community, as she meets with foreign officials, academics and students to talk about reasons for the problems with the nation's image, and to get ideas for improving...
This month has offered Summers something of a break after the school year closed with questions about his job security. He marked four full years at Harvard on July 1 and promptly headed to Colorado for the week-long Aspen Ideas Festival, an academic equivalent of Sundance or Cannes...