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Two men who helped Phil Army to get some nasty terrorists got a reward...LINK

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HIV in India: fewer cases than estimated

I often argue that Asia's approach to HIV: i.e. encouraging abstinence, marriage, and stimatizing behavior by the government while allowing smaller NGO's to help the groups where HIV is more common, is working, and that critics ignore that Bush using 7% of HIV funds to stress morality is a good investment in conservative countries.
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Pinoy Centric has photos of poverty LINK
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Putin's rhetoric against the US missile shield to protect Eastern Europe might have been only to pressure Bush into protecting Moscow...he says he'll stop opposing it if they are put in Azerbaijan...MAP HERE...
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Now Turkey is causing problems with Iraq...
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Artist/Author Michael O'Brien reports his site has been taken down three times by Islamic hackers...another Catholic site last week reported the same thing...O'Brien advises us to pray for them. My essay here.
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NYTimes says those who congratulate themselves on getting out of Viet Nam need to face reality:
The 1975 Communist victory in Indochina led to horrors that engulfed the region. The victorious Khmer Rouge killed one to two million of their fellow Cambodians in a genocidal, ideological rampage. In Vietnam and Laos, cruel gulags and “re-education” camps enforced repression. Millions of people fled, mostly by boat, with thousands dying in the attempt.

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And finally, Girl Scouts one, Bears zero
DaveBarry comments: And then she made him buy cookies