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...Pisani's eyes, squeamishness and silence are killers. When money finally poured into AIDS programming early this decade, very little cash got to the marginalized groups who really were high-risk. In Ghana, three-quarters of new HIV infections occur in the sex trade, according to the World Bank, but 99% of the HIV funding goes to general-population programs like microcredit schemes. The same pattern of ignoring high-risk, low-status people is found in countries like Nigeria, Cambodia and Thailand, says Pisani: "It's very strong to say it's deliberate neglect, but we are deliberately choosing...
...world of trouble. And as the frequency of piracy on the high seas grows, many ship owners and insurers aren't willing to wait for the navy to help them out. They are turning instead to an array of high-tech defenses to keep freebooters at bay. Among the offerings are night-vision equipment, high-powered water guns, ear-splitting klaxons, and a lubricant foam that make it difficult for pirates to get their footing. For commercial shipping vessels and yachts operating in high-risk areas of Southeast Asia, the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, such products...
...Clinton announced this week a $78.5 billion plan to shore up the nation's infrastructure, including a $10 billion emergency fund for high-risk bridges and other structures and a $60 billion National Infrastructure Bank that would finance large projects - all of which, she claims, would create three million jobs. Similarly, in the wake of the Minneapolis bridge collapse last summer, Obama announced a plan to spend $60 billion on fixing bridges, dams and highways, a move that he says would create two million jobs...
...installed motion detectors at some crossings where there are no traffic signals; when a pedestrian approaches, a squawkbox urges him or her to push a button before crossing, triggering high-intensity flashing lights that drivers can see some distance from the intersection. City officials credit the system with boosting driver compliance with crosswalk laws from 8% to 84%. Washington plans to install similar bilingual devices at some of its high-risk intersections. In Boulder, Colo., the city has placed audible warning devices at busy crosswalks - when a pedestrian pushes the crosswalk button, lights flash and a "Use caution when crossing...
...Harvard Medical School (HMS) study released last week shows that Implantable Medical Devices (IMD), such as pacemakers, could be high-risk targets for hackers. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts, University of Washington, Beth-Israel Deaconess Hospital, and Harvard Medical School found that hackers could intercept patient information and reprogram the device, potentially endangering the patient by sending additional electrical signals to the heart. The researchers presented their findings last Wednesday, in anticipation of the publication of their paper, “Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses.” The study focused...