Word: problems
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...kind of Republican, a "uniter not a divider." But he will have to take the next step and argue that the times demand what only he has to offer. As one of his advertising gurus put it bluntly last week, "We must come up with a problem to which he is the only solution...
...Another problem is that while AIDS is almost completely preventable, prevention methods must be taught to potential victims. Yet sex education of any sort is rare in Africa, and many people lack even the most basic understanding of how the disease is spread. Upon hearing that AIDS in Africa was mostly a heterosexually transmitted disease, for example, prostitutes in western Kenya started offering clients unprotected anal sex. Since they considered this form of sex "homosexual," they figured they'd be safe...
Strong leadership from public officials may help, but most African governments have been slow even in admitting they have a problem. It is only in the past 18 months that President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe have used the word disaster in relation to AIDS...
...were missing the vital social infrastructure, to say nothing of the legal and business background, that sped Europe's regeneration. By the late 1990s, the debt of these countries had reached absurd proportions. Today, for instance, every man, woman and child in Guinea-Bissau owes global lenders $964--a problem for a nation where per capita income is $160 a year. At last year's G-8 economic summit in Germany, the world's richest countries adopted a plan to help bail out these nations. They will return to the issue at this week's summit in Okinawa...
Stonesifer, sitting in a coffeehouse in Redmond, Wash., draws a diagram of a river, then stick-figure babies floating in the river and then her plan for heading upstream to where those babies are falling into the river and solving the problem there. She's told this story two dozen times. But there is a fervor in her brown eyes and a drill-to-the-core focus that made her the top female executive at Microsoft until her retirement, at age 40, in 1997. She does not draw a salary for her work with the Gates Foundation. "We have...