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Arab countries have some of the world's fastest-growing rates of HIV infection, but their governments and religious authorities have been slow to address the problem. That was the message last week from a Cairo conference organized by the Arab League and the U.N. Development Program, which drew together more than 300 leading religious figures from 20 Arab countries, and was jointly led by Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque - which is influential throughout the Sunni Muslim world - and Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church and President of the Middle East...
...move that could help liberalize the country's economy and spark an export-driven boom similar to the boost China received after it joined the WTO in 2001. Vietnam is already on a roll. It's GDP growth rate this year is projected to be 8.2%, the second-fastest pace in Asia behind China and in a dead heat with India. Exports were up an estimated 24% in the first 10 months of 2006. The nascent stock market in Ho Chi Minh City is one of Asia's best-performing this year, up 70%. To top it all off, Hanoi...
...defensive forward. Over the course of the season, she netted 11 goals and eight assists.But Sifers will reclaim her position at center this season, moving from the defensive special teams unit to leading the offensive charge with her swiftness.“[Sifers is] one of the fastest kids you are ever going to see in college hockey,” Stone says. “And now we will be able to put her back where she really belongs.”A natural leader, Sifers is also stepping up as captain of the women’s hockey...
...Summers travelled to India for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at a new Harvard office in Mumbai. Meanwhile, students from both those countries are coming to U.S. schools in greater numbers. The Council of Graduate Schools study found that first-time enrollment from India grew 32 percent—the fastest rate of any country—followed by China at 20 percent. The large gain for China is “particularly noteworthy” because enrollment fell 8 percent in 2004, and only increased 3 percent in 2005, according to the report. Harvard was one of the schools that...
...grab. "The Taif Accord [which brokered an end to Lebanon's civil war] divides power among religious groups, regardless of demographic changes," said Rami Rayess, a spokesman for the Progressive Socialist Party, the leading Druze faction of Siniora's coalition. According to Rayess, Shi'ite parties, who represent the fastest growing part of Lebanon's population, want to flex their muscles after what they see as Hizballah's "Divine Victory" over Israel this summer. "We have the fear that national unity is a cover for undermining Taif...