Gates Foundation sets aside $60 million for developing HIV ointment | New York Times | Published April 1, 2003
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced on Monday that it would give $60 million to the International Partnership for Microbicides, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the development and distribution of such topical means of preventing HIV transmission as creams or gels.
Tables Top Typical Bar Diversions
Wave a hand above a black-and-white image of a woman's pursed lips on the table top and the area below your hand turns to color. Other tables appear littered with dozens of paper clips that scatter to other parts of the surface when an object passes over them. Yet another table is decorated with a fairly plain motif, until an item -- say, a drink -- is placed on it. At that, a Lord of the Rings-style circle of fire surrounds the object.
I hang around, lurking at this fine site for many reasons. Linkage to teh funny is just 1.
Iraqi oil reserves of 112 billion barrels are seven times those of the combined UK and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. But the prize could be even greater; Iraq estimates that its eventual reserves could be as high as 220 billion barrels. Is the potential significance of the fact that Iraq contains at least 11 per cent of the world's oil reserves, second only to Saudi Arabia's 25 per cent, being sufficiently brought into focus in the public discussion?
Serbia Crisis Update -- Friday, March 28, 2003
"The president carried me through an enemy minefield after my arm had been blown off by a mortar shell, blazing away with his pistol as he delivered me to safety," Pvt. Chris Adair said. "Then, after he'd gotten me to a medic, he went all the way back through that same minefield--carrying a 40-pound bag of ice the whole way--to retrieve my severed arm so the doctors could sew it back on. Now, thanks to President Bush, I'll still be able to play piano for the church choir back
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud
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Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Jackson, who was this country's representative to the International Conference on Military Trials in August 1945 and the chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, told his colleagues then that "we must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the
by Patrick Di Justo
Tuesday, March 18, 2003 5:00 a.m. ET
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If you can read this, you're probably not in Myanmar.
That country's military junta has blocked Internet access to Wired News, as well as to most porn sites and to the website of the Free Burma Coalition.
C|Net's story
Lawyers: Hackers sentenced too harshly
Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society
Study
Third Baltic Sea Women's Conference on WoMen and Democracy,
Tallinn, Estonia, February 13-14, 2003
Pornophication of the Public Space
By Ms Marte Brekke Michelet
In the following I'll present two measures designed to combat the pornophication of public space. But first I would like to say something about pornography and draw a distinction between the terms "pornophication" and "sexualization".
I bet there are plenty of technogeeks who'd like to see what the BBS experience was like. Here's a chance to find out.
From: kcvwdoc (kcvwdoc@bornwildbbs.dyndns.org)
Subject: Born to be Wild
View: Original Format
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Date: 2003-03-09 15:33:47 PSTBorn to be Wild BBS is reborn! Looking for old and new users!
Mexico Seizes Reputed Drug Lord
Arrest Is Latest Blow Against Traffickers by President Fox | By Kevin Sullivan | Washington Post Foreign Service | Saturday, March 15, 2003; Page A20 | MEXICO CITY, March 14 -- Mexican soldiers today arrested reputed drug lord Osiel Cardenas Guillen after a shoot-out in the border city of Matamoros. U.S. and Mexican officials said it
Line Printer paper is strongest at the perforations.
