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...levels. But even if many voters now believe that whomever they choose will be corrupt, they can't simply stay away from the polls, because voting is compulsory under Brazil's constitution. That's why campaigns aimed at convincing people to spoil their ballots are gathering pace. "There is widespread disappointment," admits Marco Aurelio Mello, the president of the country's federal electoral court. "People are apathetic. That is why there are campaigns to annul the vote...
...easy bringing any of the proposed prevention techniques into widespread use - microbicides may run into cultural barriers and won't be useful at all unless women use them and their partners accept them, while preventive drugs may exponentially increase the risk that drug resistant HIV strains will blossom. But it's important that new prevention options become part of future plans to control HIV-AIDS. As this conference has expanded over the years and become as much about the spectacle as about the science, many AIDS researchers have stopped attending. Yes, the scope of the meeting and the now predictable...
...since April 2004 were part of the lead-up investigation, conducted by Dell and Sony. Dell confirmed that it worked with Sony over the last few months to improve the battery manufacturing process. Because Sony batteries are used by many different laptop manufacturers, the problem could be more widespread. At the moment, Sony is not issuing a recall of the batteries used in its Vaio laptops, but a Sony spokesman says the company will check with other laptop makers to see if there are any other open investigations. There's a high probability that other manufacturers will be affected...
...fueled public anger. In an effort to move beyond his core backers in the middle class, he also promised to distribute Venezuela's oil wealth more equally than the current government, proposing a direct payoff of petro-dollars to families. That pledge, however, may sound similar to the widespread oil-funded social development programs Chavez already has in place that are popular with low-income Venezuelans, who make up more than half of the country's population...
...International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas [iccat], which sets international rules.) COLLAPSING Convinced that countries are fishing the Mediterranean's stock into extinction, the wwf last year commissioned industry consultants to calculate the real tonnage of tuna catches. Its findings, released earlier this month, show widespread violations of the Mediterranean's iccat quota of 32,000 tons a year, mostly by industrial companies whose farm-fattened exports escape rigid scrutiny. Bill Hogarth, the chairman of iccat, says he finds the wwf findings convincing. "If we continue like this the stock will crash," says Hogarth, who heads...