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...when he traveled back to Cameroon from Wisconsin, where he has been studying architecture and working since 1994. Some aid workers had gone into Cameroon to teach sex education and AIDS prevention. But most locals wouldn't listen to the foreigners. Many said that HIV was a lie or a conspiracy. Yet some of Menyoli's friends had died and "I suspect AIDS was the case," he says. "But people said, 'No, it was witchcraft or voodoo...
...TRUE LIES Next time you tell a little white lie to your spouse or boss, be sure they're not holding a Truster. This portable lie detector from DreamQuest analyzes sonic waves in the voice for signs of stress and claims 85% accuracy; it even plugs into cell phones. Campaigning politicians everywhere, beware...
...accused are from the Malay minority; six of the eight had served in the armed forces. (National service is compulsory for male citizens.) That has turned a spotlight on a touchy topic: Where do the loyalties of the Malay minority, which forms about 14% of the population, ultimately lie? The Malay community has made progress in recent years, in universities and in the job market. But it is still poorer than the other two major ethnic groups, Chinese and Indians, and tops the list of the government's carefully compiled stats on divorce rates and drug addiction...
...Economist notes that "the unique attraction of Guantanamo Bay? is not its remote location or shark-infested waters, but that it seems to lie beyond the jurisdiction of America's federal courts, or any other court system for that matter." And like much of the European media, it finds Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's comments that "I do not feel the slightest concern at their treatment; they are being treated vastly better than they treated anybody else" as an unacceptable legal standard. The British magazine offers a thoughtful assessment of the various legal options open to the U.S. and concludes with...
...exercise--just for fun," he says. Writing in real time, he adds, is easier than he thought it would be: "It's like a haiku or a sonnet. The rules are fun. And you don't have to deal with exposition. You don't have to lie with exits and entrances and wrapping things...