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...infection in Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization officially puts it at 2.99% of the country's 4.7 million people, but an internal who report late last year conceded that this figure was "difficult to believe" and "grossly underestimate[s] the magnitude of the problem." Other studies paint a bleak picture. A 1996 Ministry of Health and Sanitation survey found an 8.6% infection rate among police. By 1997 the rate among pregnant women in urban areas was 7%. In a 1999 recruitment drive the Sierra Leone army tested 1,099 candidates - mostly young men - for HIV. More than 21% were...
...girl was 11 a child of the streets of Fortaleza, Brazil, whose future seemed as bleak as the slums in which she lived. Then Carla Nisiane Anacleto da Costa saw a ballet performance by students from a dance school called EDISCA, a troupe that included other impoverished girls from her street. EDISCA (the letters stand for the Spanish name of the School of Dance and Social Integration for Children and Adolescents) was not your average ballet company, and this was no Swan Lake. It portrayed Fortaleza's poorest kids begging at traffic lights and living on the street. "That really...
...season prospectus for 2000 noted that linebacker would be the "area hardest hit on either side of the ball for Harvard." With the graduation of Kacyvenski and fellow four-year starter Aron Natale, things indeed looked bleak for the Crimson...
...parties. His own party controls only 10 percent of the seats, and he won the presidency with support from other parties who wanted to keep out Megawati, who won the most votes in the election. But his prospects of winning the support necessary to stay in power look very bleak...
Even before the film Traffic broadcast its bleak evaluation of the war, things had begun to change at the state level, where overburdened criminal-justice systems handle most drug offenses. In the past four years, states have passed 17 of 19 proposed ballot initiatives that loosened tough drug laws. While Congress shows little interest in repealing stiff federal "mandatory minimum" drug sentences, some 700 drug courts have been created or are being planned by various states to shepherd narcotics abusers through treatment rather than prison. Utah and Oregon curtailed police powers to forfeit the assets of suspected drug users. Nine...