Talking With Children About Sex and AIDS: At What Age to Start?

Seeded on Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:02 PM EST (The New York Times)

What age is the right age to have "the talk," not just about where babies come from, but also about sex and AIDS?

health, motion-pictures, nytimes, children-and-youth, medicine-and-health, acquired-immune-deficiency-syndrome

Editor's choice

Seeded on Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:35 PM EST (Reuters)

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Kenya govt turns on critics, Odinga hailed

Seeded on Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:01 PM EST (Reuters)

(adds government warning on rallies, AU reaction) By Andrew Cawthorne and Wangui Kanina NAIROBI, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki's government warned opposition supporters on Monday it would crack down on planned new protests against...

reuters, world-news

Congo Agrees to Peace Deal With Rebels

Seeded on Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:58 PM EST (The New York Times)

The deal would end an insurgency that has threatened to unravel the country's new elected government.

world, africa, united-nations, african-union, nytimes, congo-formerly-zaire, laurent-nkunda

Signs in Kenya That Killings Were Planned

Seeded on Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:40 AM EST (The New York Times)

Some of the bloodletting in Kenya that has left more than 650 people dead may have been premeditated.

world, africa, kenya, mwai-kibaki, nytimes, politics-and-government, kikuyu-tribe, united-nations-human-rights-commission

An Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories

Seeded on Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:55 PM EST (The New York Times)

Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.

business, malaysia, india, pakistan, food, united-nations, far-east, corn, nytimes, biofuels

Crackdown in Kenya

Seeded on Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:04 PM EST (The New York Times)

The Kenyan police seemed to be ratcheting up pressure against demonstrators and others on Thursday, the second day of renewed opposition protests.

world, nytimes

Protesters Clash With Police in Kenya and Loot Train

Seeded on Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:59 PM EST (The New York Times)

In Kisumu, a large Kenyan city and an opposition stronghold, the police faced off with angry protesters and arrested several journalists they accused of fanning the flames of the unrest.

elections, world, africa, kenya, mwai-kibaki, nytimes, demonstrations-and-riots, raila-odinga

Antidepressant Studies Unpublished

Seeded on Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:04 PM EST (The New York Times)

The makers of some antidepressants never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, a new study suggests.

health, research, nytimes, new-england-journal-of-medicine, antidepressants, medicine-and-health, depression-mental, drugs-pharmaceuticals, tests-and-testing

Protests Bring New Violence in Kenya

Seeded on Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:51 PM EST (The New York Times)

In Kenya's third largest city, furious mobs hurled stones at police officers, who charged and fired their guns.

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Kenya Opposition Plans More Protests

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:59 AM EST (The New York Times)

Kenya was in partial lockdown mode as opposition supporters pressed on with plans for nationwide protests.

elections, world, africa, kenya, nytimes, demonstrations-and-riots, nairobi-kenya, election-issues, mombasa-kenya

Worms infect more poor Americans than thought

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:25 AM EST (Reuters)

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roundworms may infect close to a quarter of inner city black children, tapeworms are the leading cause of seizures among U.S. Hispanics and other parasitic diseases associated with poor...

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Poor sanitation kills 5,000 children a day: report

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:22 AM EST (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) - Five thousand children die every day globally because they do not have access to clean toilets, health experts said on Tuesday. Wealthy governments and donors could make a huge impact on global health by making sanitation a...

reuters, world-news

New Bacteria Strain Is Striking Gay Men

Seeded on Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:30 PM EST (The New York Times)

A new, highly drug-resistant strain of the "flesh-eating" MRSA bacteria is being spread among gay men in San Francisco and Boston, researchers reported on Monday.

health, bacteria, homosexuality, nytimes, antibiotics, staphylococcus-aureus, medicine-and-health

G.M. Buys Stake in Ethanol Made From Waste

Seeded on Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:07 PM EST (The New York Times)

Eager to ensure a supply of fuel for the fleet of flex-fuel ethanol-capable vehicles it is building, G.M. has invested in a start-up bio-fuel producer, Coskata Inc.

business, inc, environment, general-motors-corp, ethanol, automobiles, nytimes, fuel-efficiency, waste-materials-and-disposal, detroit-mich

Democracy by Other Means

Seeded on Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:59 PM EST (The New York Times)

Kenyan democracy has failed because ordinary people were encouraged to believe that the process in and of itself could bring change.

elections, kenya, mwai-kibaki, opinion, nytimes, politics-and-government, raila-odinga

Teenage Birth Rate Rises for First Time Since '91

Seeded on Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:11 PM EST (The New York Times)

The teenage birth rate in the United States rose 3 percent in 2006, the first increase since 1991, fueling a debate about whether the Bush administration's abstinence-only sexual education efforts are working.

health, sex, united-states, nytimes, teenage-pregnancy, medicine-and-health, birth-control-and-family-planning

U.S. Presses Kenyan President and Opposition Leaders to Meet

Seeded on Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:59 AM EST (The New York Times)

The American government took its toughest position yet on Kenya's disputed elections, calling on the president and opposition leaders to meet immediately.

world, africa, kenya, mwai-kibaki, nytimes, election-results, raila-odinga, jendayi-e-frazer

Remember the Forgotten Victims of the Democratic Republic of Congo: Women and Children of Mitwaba

Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:17 AM EST

Are you aware that an estimated four million people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998? War and continuous conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have left many victims.

Continue reading this entry ...

human-rights, world-news, drc, democratic-republic-of-congo, mitwaba, cosccet, kisumu-project-inc, gedeon-kyunga-mutanga, katanga-province

Kenyan Opposition Calls for New Rallies and Sanctions

Seeded on Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:55 AM EST (The New York Times)

With no signs of a breakthrough in the country's political crisis, the call for protests heightens the standoff with the government.

world, africa, kenya, nytimes, politics-and-government, demonstrations-and-riots

Lack of Supervision Cited in Deaths of Home-Schooled

Seeded on Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:33 AM EST (The New York Times)

A lack of regulation of the home schooling process may have contributed to the abuse and murders of the children of Banita M. Jacks in Washington.

us, washington-dc, nytimes, families-and-family-life, murders-and-attempted-murders, child-abuse-and-neglect, banita-m-jacks

Digital Tools Help Users Save Energy, Study Finds

Seeded on Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:47 PM EST (The New York Times)

Giving people the tools to monitor and adjust their electricity use lowers their bills and could reduce the need to build new power plants, according to a government study.

technology, energy-efficiency, nytimes, pacific-northwest-national-laboratory, computers-and-the-internet, electric-light-and-power

Corpse Wheeled to Check-Cashing Store Leads to 2 Arrests

Seeded on Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:44 PM EST (The New York Times)

Two men were arrested on Tuesday after pushing a corpse, seated in an office chair, along the sidewalk to a check-cashing store to cash the dead man's Social Security check.

police, nytimes, frauds-and-swindling, nyregion, hells-kitchen-nyc

Sending Message, Judge Sentences Jones to Prison

Seeded on Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:33 PM EST (The New York Times)

Marion Jones pleaded guilty in October to lying to federal agents about her use of performance-enhancing drugs.

sports, steroids, olympic-games, nytimes, marion-jones, perjury, united-states-olympic-committee, united-states-anti-doping-agency, sentences-criminal, decisions-and-verdicts

In Life's Web, Aiding Trees Can Kill Them

Seeded on Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:23 PM EST (The New York Times)

When elephants were removed from a research site in Kenya, a mysterious decline in the colonies of good ants and a growth in the colonies of bad ants emerged.

environment, science, kenya, ants, elephants, university-of-florida, nytimes

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