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...Game Sulking about the profound lack of debauchery for this year’s tailgate? No need; head on over to Tommy Doyle’s for an 8:15 a.m. breakfast and booze spread. Manager Garrett H. Tingle says that the Irish pub will serve up a “full brunch menu.” Brunch, in this case, means package deals of eggs, home fries, toast, and beers ($12-20, substitutions $2-3). The pub is also cooking up wings, burgers, and more. Who needs a U-Haul? Sat., Nov. 18 at 8:15 a.m. Tommy Doyles...
...scale of the challenge. For example, the amount of treatment drugs made available through the public health system in Sudan is well short of the number of infections in that country. And in civil society, the enormous social stigma associated with the infection hinders efforts to slow its spread. That stigma discourages people from being tested, because acknowledging infection has been known to lead to sufferers being rejected by neighbors, families and employers...
...wall of silence in the Arab media also hinders efforts to spread awareness about AIDS. Even though the rate of growth in HIV infection in the Arab world is second only to Eastern Europe, most people in the Arab world are barely aware that the disease exists in their society. Amr Moussa, the Secretary General of the Arab League, warned the conference that failure to respond aggressively to the threat of AIDS will reverse economic and development and will cost the region 35% of GDP in the next 25 years...
...Still, the Cairo conference represents a major step towards breaking the taboos that help HIV to spread unchecked. Regional UNDP director Amat al-Alim al-Soswa, addressing the event, expressed her satisfaction that the topic of AIDS is now discussed at Friday prayers and in Sunday sermons, because the clergy were an indispensable ally in the fight against the disease. By removing the shame of those living with HIV, she said, the religious leaders "went beyond a narrow and contemptuous attitude toward one embodying true magnanimity in knowledge, understanding and innovation...
...embarrassed, pajama-clad visitors in its midst, the sound of sirens announced the arrival of a fire truck. Out poured the firemen, who, making clear that it was not a drill, ran into the building to assess the situation. By the time they came back out, word had already spread: false alarm. The anger was immediate. Who would be drunk enough, reckless enough, generally despicable enough to force hundreds of people out into the cold for no reason at all on a Saturday night? And as many people in the crowd pointed out, the false alarm wasn?...