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...most important warning sign that the economy is sliding again is when the media seeks out the pessimists among the bureau for famous analysts and financiers. Wilbur Ross and George Soros are getting too much air time. They rarely have good things to say about the future. They may be making bets in the market that key economic measurements will deteriorate so their motives are suspect. But, they are probably right anyway. Billionaires have proven track records for prescience. Once they begin to circle, it is almost certain that something is about...
...When a state senator threatened to strip funding from the University of Maryland over its plans to show a XXX-rated film in the student center, school officials nixed the event. But fired-up students responded on Monday by holding a free-speech demonstration that drew media coverage from as far away as Thailand and Australia...
...Just how far the changes will go remains to be seen. The intelligence community's other ventures into social media have been less successful. Last September, the Director of National Intelligence rolled out a social-networking site called A-Space, with linked video and photo programs. A-Space has some 8,619 accounts, all of them top secret, but insiders say it is troubled and slow to get off the ground; at one point it was suspended because particularly sensitive intelligence was misused. New efforts at tagging and instant-messaging have also been slow. (Read "Six Ways...
...result, the stigma AIDS carries today in China remains strong - and potentially dangerous. In a 2008 survey by the China AIDS Media Partnership, of the more than 6000 people surveyed, nearly 48% said they wouldn't knowingly eat with an HIV positive person. Thirty percent said HIV positive children should not be allowed to study at the same schools as uninfected children, and 40% said they would not willingly share workspace with a colleague they knew was HIV positive. The government has taken steps to improve these attitudes, including implementing an anti-discrimination law in March 2006, but perceptions like...
...workers, men who have sex with men and intravenous drug users - all communities thought to have higher rates of infection than the general population - facing the highest risk. After the new government numbers were released in February, Zhang Beichuan, a researcher at Qingdao University, told the state-run media that the high number of gay men entering into heterosexual marriages is a contributing factor to the increasing spread of HIV. Extra-martial, high-risk sex puts both those men and their wives at risk, according to a study Zhang conducted in 2006, and the enduring discrimination homosexuals face in China...