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...rare success story in the global battle to contain the AIDS epidemic. The situation looked grim for the country in the 1980s, when doctors reported that sex workers in Bangkok's famous red-light district were beginning to test HIV positive. There were dire predictions that the virus would spread rapidly through the population, infecting as many as 4 million of the country's 65 million people...
...didn't happen. Instead, the Thai government launched a comprehensive education and prevention campaign. Brothels started using condoms. Public-service messages were broadcast on radio and television every two hours. Anti-AIDS messages-often served with a healthy dose of sanuk, the Thai sense of playfulness-were spread in schools, hospitals, police stations and courthouses. After peaking at 143,000 in 1991, the annual number of new cases of HIV infection fell to 19,000 in 2003. That still leaves 604,000 Thais living with HIV or AIDS, but it could have been much, much worse...
...package currently owned by the company's former CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a small group of close associates - one of them, Platon Lebedev, like Khodorkovsky, is on trial for fraud and other charges. Yukos might in effect be nationalized, with the government holding a controlling stake and the rest spread out among compliant domestic and foreign investors. Yukos' inexorable demise has made the markets nervous, and capital flight has jumped sharply. Destroying Yukos, warns Christof Ruehl, the World Bank's chief economist in Russia, will "undermine Putin's biggest economic accomplishment, the creation of two to three years of stability...
...says admiringly, pointing to a large male nyala, one of 10 coarse-haired African antelope waiting to go on the block at the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife game auction in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi regional park in northern KwaZulu- Natal. "They've got a nice turn to them and they're spread nice and far, tip to tip. That's a beauty." "Very symmetrical," agrees a friend. I want to show off my animal knowledge, so I break in: "The horns are a good indicator of the animal's health, no?" The men turn and stare. "I'm not sure about their...
None of that has slowed the spread of ultrasound-imaging machines. The devices, which can cost as much as $200,000, are even popping up in the offices of obstetricians eager to please patients who expect to get the same services from their doctors that they can buy in a shopping mall...