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...efforts at economic growth frustrated by a disease that kills farmers, teachers, and businessmen in the prime of their working lives. And HIV/AIDS reserves an especially cruel toll for society’s most vulnerable. Gender discrimination, physiological susceptibility, and economic inequality have combined to affect a profound demographic shift in the disease; almost 60 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and worldwide, women continue to be infected at a higher rate than men. As communities are left bereft of mothers and fathers, orphanages overflow, and grandparents are left to care for grandchildren. Worldwide...

Author: By Matthew F. Basilico, Luke M. Messac, and Sarah A. Moran | Title: Beyond the Red Ribbon | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

...crosses, and it's clear that this 40-year-old mother of four likes the kind of jewelry that starts conversations. But don't be fooled. ?They might seem big, but they move,? she says, standing in her sunny, cramped home office that serves as a make-shift showroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kara Ross: Stone Age | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...improve my game immensely.” But goals or not, the Fighting Sioux are going to hear from Magura when they’re trying to set up an attack in their own end, and when he sprawls in front of their shots, and when he outlasts them shift to shift. All the little things that give his teammates chances at the back of the net. Says Donato, “It’s hard—nearly impossible—for a team to accomplish what it wants without guys like Tyler Magura...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Center Shines, Spotlight or Not | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...oversees the program, needs $A10,000 in start-up funding to gather reproductive and tissue samples from perhaps 100 wild and captive dingoes as "an insurance policy" against extinction, says project director Shae Cox. The funding offers aren't rolling in, but Cox senses public opinion is starting to shift in favor of the animals' long-term survival. While storing semen for artificial insemination projects, the team will also research reproductive behavior, which, like much about the dingo, remains little studied. "No one has taken a lot of interest in them," says Cox. "They're classified as vermin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dingo, Going, Gone? | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

After a death, don't many people see the holidays as an ordeal to get through? They may, but that's better than not having a gathering at all. It's fine if they want to shift where and how they celebrate, as long as the people they care about are with them--because it's the human connection that heals and makes a family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Empty Seat | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

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