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...works, the Bronx initiative could serve as a blueprint for how the nation's health care community tackles HIV/AIDS - and save thousands of lives in the process. The Centers for Disease Control advocated routine widespread testing in 2003 and again in 2006, but so far it hasn't paid dividends. Washington, D.C., attempted to test 450,000 residents in 2006, but the initiative was a flop, reportedly meeting only about 10% of that target. New York's prospects for success may be brighter, partly because New York's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Frieden, is one of the most effective...
...Maliki made the announcement amid widespread opposition among the Iraqi government to U.S. demands put forward during ongoing negotiations over the more formal Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). The SOFA would create a legal framework for a long-term U.S. troop presence in the country after the U.N. mandate expires in December. The sudden mention of a timetable - a concept aggressively supported by al-Maliki's rivals in the Sadrist movement - may have come as a shock to Washington...
...Plan Colombia, which has afforded Colombia's military U.S. hardware like Black Hawk and Huey helicopters, making it difficult for the rebels to concentrate in large units, has been successful in hobbling the FARC. But coca cultivation in Colombia rose in 2007, according to a new U.N. report. A widespread fear is that the remaining members of the FARC will become full-fledged drug lords...
...instance, the University of Toulouse 1 inaugurated the Toulouse School of Economics, offering English-language graduate courses, thanks to $52 million in donations from corporate donors. A change in French law last year granted state-run institutions like Toulouse more autonomy, so such fund-raising efforts could become widespread in France. In Germany, where local governments have been free to levy tuition fees since 2005, federal and local governments have earmarked some $3 billion to promote excellence in research at selected universities through to 2011. Others spy money-spinning opportunities abroad. At the Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, opened...
...climate change package that goes beyond the Kyoto Protocol commitments. But he has put more attention on plans for a Europe-wide cut in fuel taxes - already dismissed as useless market interference by most other E.U. leaders - and a hard-line European migration pact, which is also lacks widespread support...