The bad news is you have HIV. The good news is you have HIV. “HIV patients reported that they have discovered the important things in life, removing trivial problems,” according to a Centers for Disease Control summary of a small study published in AIDS Alert (October). About half the 51 patients surveyed thought their lives were better after they became infected, and less than a third said their lives were worse.
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Third world countries don’t owe us a thing, according to a press release from Christian Aid, a relief organization based in the United Kingdom (“We believe in life before death”). A report issued on September 20 argues that while poor countries owe rich ones some $200 billion, the rich countries owe them as much as $612 billion because their low use of fossil fuels has helped minimize global warming.
I did my homework on the head of this pin. According to an October press release, Northwestern University chemist Chad Mirkin and colleagues have devised the world’s smallest plotter–a device capable of drawing multiple lines of molecules, each only 30 molecules wide.
“In most cases, the shortest distance between a poor person and a job is along a line driven in a car,” contend Margy Walker and Mark Alan Hughes of the Progressive Policy Institute in an August report on welfare reform and transportation in ten states, including Illinois (www.dlcppi.org/texts/social/transportation.htm). “Private automobiles have been an overlooked solution and remain largely taboo in Washington, D.C., and some states….But local policymakers are recognizing that cars are a necessary part of the job access mix for low-income workers and are developing ways that public funds can help. Some environmentalists, transit advocates, and others may object to car-based solutions. And while clean air, uncongested roads, and farmland preservation are worthy goals, they should not impede the job prospects of poor people being propelled from welfare to work.”
