Word: mainstreaming
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...trade. But they represent the newest and most troubling front in China's war against the AIDS virus. As in other countries hit by HIV, the epidemic in China began in the margins of society?among migrant workers, drug users and prostitutes?and then gradually entered the mainstream population. In China this process was facilitated by the government, which, through the tragic mismanagement of its blood-buying program in the early 1990s, permitted blood-collecting practices that ended up contaminating the country's blood supply with HIV. Anyone who gave blood or received a transfusion during that period...
LIFESTYLE: Quinceaneras go mainstream; Roomba improved...
...blighted banlieues. A recent confidential report leaked by France's police intelligence unit estimates that more than 2 million French people now live in 300 of the most dire of these urban ghettos - cut off from mainstream society and beset by domestic violence and religious extremism. This potent mix of economic and social deprivation, combined with unfolding events - the Palestinian intifadeh, the Iraq war and perceived stigmatization of Muslims in the war on terror - has led some young people to channel their anger into outright anti-Semitism. "The perpetrators of anti-Semitic attacks that have been caught have usually been...
Summers and Hyman have encouraged the practice because they say it expedites the movement of important discoveries into mainstream usage...
...premise of the amnesty is that the ranks of the insurgents include implacable Islamist and foreign fighters but also secular nationalists and patriots enraged by foreign occupation, and that the key to beating the insurgency is to isolate the hard-liners and foreigners from elements closer to the mainstream of Iraqi society. "We're negotiating with what I call the non-criminals, those who never really were the hard core like Zarqawi and his aides and the al-Qaeda-style people," Allawi told the New York Times last week, referring to contacts between his administration and insurgents...