Гпобальное потепление

CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- The United Nations' AIDS-fighting agency plans to issue a report on Tuesday acknowledging that it overestimated the size of the epidemic and that new infections with the deadly virus have been dropping each year since they peaked in the late 1990s.

Until recently, most national estimates were made by giving anonymous blood tests to some young women who came into public health clinics because they were pregnant or feared they had a sexually transmitted disease; those results were expanded with statistical models.

But epidemiologists have realized that such a method — usually applied in big urban clinics because it was more efficient — oversampled prostitutes, drug abusers and city sophisticates with many lovers and ignored rural women. Then the statistical extrapolations exaggerated those errors.

Гпобальное потепление

CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- The United Nations' AIDS-fighting agency plans to issue a report on Tuesday acknowledging that it overestimated the size of the epidemic and that new infections with the deadly virus have been dropping each year since they peaked in the late 1990s.

Until recently, most national estimates were made by giving anonymous blood tests to some young women who came into public health clinics because they were pregnant or feared they had a sexually transmitted disease; those results were expanded with statistical models.

But epidemiologists have realized that such a method — usually applied in big urban clinics because it was more efficient — oversampled prostitutes, drug abusers and city sophisticates with many lovers and ignored rural women. Then the statistical extrapolations exaggerated those errors.

Это теперь называется aid

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia remains the world's No. 1 cocaine producer -- with output of at least 600 tonnes a year -- despite getting billions in U.S. aid to fight traffickers and guerrillas.

Это теперь называется aid

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia remains the world's No. 1 cocaine producer -- with output of at least 600 tonnes a year -- despite getting billions in U.S. aid to fight traffickers and guerrillas.

Интеллектуальная собственность

avysk сообщает для тех, кто понимает: "Заплатил вчера пять евро денег конторе Relakks. Получил на месяц PPTP к ним и шведский анонимный IP наружу. Говорят, что канал неограниченный."

Чувствую, скоро обнаружим у бойцов иракского Сопротивления шведское оружие.

Интеллектуальная собственность

avysk сообщает для тех, кто понимает: "Заплатил вчера пять евро денег конторе Relakks. Получил на месяц PPTP к ним и шведский анонимный IP наружу. Говорят, что канал неограниченный."

Чувствую, скоро обнаружим у бойцов иракского Сопротивления шведское оружие.

Надо запомнить

While the academics and bighead education critics were moaning that reading was dead and kids cared about nothing but their Xboxes, iPods, Avril Lavigne, and High School Musical, the kids they were worried about were quietly turning on to the novels of one Robert Lawrence Stine. Known in college as ''Jovial Bob'' Stine, this fellow gained another nickname later in life, as — ahem — ''the Stephen King of children's literature.''

--Stephen King, J.K. Rowling's Ministry of Magic

Надо запомнить

While the academics and bighead education critics were moaning that reading was dead and kids cared about nothing but their Xboxes, iPods, Avril Lavigne, and High School Musical, the kids they were worried about were quietly turning on to the novels of one Robert Lawrence Stine. Known in college as ''Jovial Bob'' Stine, this fellow gained another nickname later in life, as — ahem — ''the Stephen King of children's literature.''

--Stephen King, J.K. Rowling's Ministry of Magic

Сцены из жизни рабочего класса

The Associated Press -- The three boys -- an 8-year-old and two 9-year-olds -- appeared in juvenile court Monday afternoon, dwarfed by the courtroom chairs and wearing navy blue jump suits and shackles. Their names were withheld because of their age.

The girl's mother told WGCL-TV in Atlanta, "They do need to be taught a lesson because if they do it to her, they could do it to somebody else. And who knows when they become teenagers what they can do to other girls."

The case involves children from a working class apartment complex.

Сцены из жизни рабочего класса

The Associated Press -- The three boys -- an 8-year-old and two 9-year-olds -- appeared in juvenile court Monday afternoon, dwarfed by the courtroom chairs and wearing navy blue jump suits and shackles. Their names were withheld because of their age.

The girl's mother told WGCL-TV in Atlanta, "They do need to be taught a lesson because if they do it to her, they could do it to somebody else. And who knows when they become teenagers what they can do to other girls."

The case involves children from a working class apartment complex.