2002

The Deconstruction of Gender

“The nature vs. nurture debate on whether biology or environment causes human beings to choose certain roles and lifestyles is a perennial controversy in sociobiology, but since the seventies the debate has been extended to whether nurture, i.e. culture, can override biology and be a

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South Africa: A Nation in Fear of AIDS

Eons ago, when I was an undergraduate a professor told me, “The only thing dark about the ‘dark continent’ is your ignorance of it.” This statement became real to me when I recently spent a month in South Africa surveying women from various ethnic backgrounds

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Kenya: A Country of Graves: HIV/AIDS

Twenty-one years ago, the first case of AIDS was reported. Since that time, AIDS has become the most devastating disease humankind has ever faced. The World Health Organization has estimated that since the epidemic began, more than 60 million people have been infected with the

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From the Countries

Northern Ireland Population Declining Northern Ireland’s population will begin declining in 20 years, the BBC recently reported. The fertility rate in Northern Ireland has steadily declined to its current all-time low of 1.74, well below the 2.2 needed for replacement. In 1974 the fertility rate

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For the Record…

“A shipment of 10 million defective condoms from UNFPA has been seized by the Tanzanian government at the port of Dar es Salaam. The UNFPA condoms failed permeability tests carried out by the Tanzanian Bureau of Standards (in plain English, they leak), and the government

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Correspondence

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The Deconstruction of Gender

“The nature vs. nurture debate on whether biology or environment causes human beings to choose certain roles and lifestyles is a perennial controversy in sociobiology,

Read More »

From the Countries

Northern Ireland Population Declining Northern Ireland’s population will begin declining in 20 years, the BBC recently reported. The fertility rate in Northern Ireland has steadily

Read More »

For the Record…

“A shipment of 10 million defective condoms from UNFPA has been seized by the Tanzanian government at the port of Dar es Salaam. The UNFPA

Read More »

Correspondence

Thanks PRI! We use your “stuff”’ a lot. Thanks for doing such great work. Penny Pullen Life Advocacy Resource Project, Inc. Warren Buffett Comment Dear

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