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...violent protests in Muslim countries are not the correct way to oppose caricatures of the Holy Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper. Offended Muslims should have written letters to newspaper editors and published articles on the life and teachings of Muhammad. We need a peaceful literary offensive to spread the teachings of Islam to the West. Adeel Ahmed Qureshi Lahore...
...women in developing countries, economic opportunity and sexual independence are supposed to go hand in hand. So why has India--the world's second fastest growing economy, after China--been unable to control the spread of its HIV/AIDS cases, which have ballooned to 5 million, more than in any other nation? The answer, says Suneeta Krishnan, 35, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, is that in India, "economic freedom stops at the bedroom door...
...Bravo's fashion reality show Project Runway. Dao, who runs her own boutique in Houston and who wowed the judges with a line of soft, tailored evening wear, beat presumed favorite Daniel Vosovic and unofficial runway villain Santino Rice to win $100,000 for her line and a fashion spread in Elle. "I can't wait to go back in my garage and start cutting," says Dao, who has already heard from Bergdorf Goodman. As Runway host Heidi Klum would say, "Wunderbar...
Lately, Chisholm has been paying a lot more attention to the news from overseas. Since the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus was first reported in Turkey last fall, avian flu has spread swiftly, landing in France, Germany, Iraq, India, Nigeria, Niger, Poland and many other countries. So far this year, three dozen human cases have been confirmed in China, Turkey, Iraq and Indonesia...
...majority of the subtypes are found in birds. A few, such as H3N2 and H1N1, have adapted to infect humans. The 2002 avian outbreak, which struck in Virginia, was the H7N2 subtype, and it illustrated the importance of early detection. "The outbreak was not contained in time and spread to 200 farms up and down the Shenandoah Valley," says Lobb...