Census-Taking More Frequent, Less Controversial in Canada
(2001) As Americans wait for the detailed results of the 2000 U.S. census, Canadians are preparing for their twice-a-decade head count.
Resource Type: Training Tool
Le centre de traitement du SIDA malien est un modèle en Afrique occidentale
(Février 2001) Au centre de la ville de Bamako, dans une rue animée, une pancarte défraîchie indique un bâtiment d’un étage à la peinture écaillée.
Racial Inequalities in Managerial and Professional Jobs
(2001) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 sought to reduce racial inequality by eliminating discrimination in the labor market.
Au Sénégal, les prostituées sensibilisent la population au SIDA
By asoares
(2000) La Communauté sénégalaise du SIDA vient en nombre assister aux réunions du Conseil d’administration d’une association locale de femmes appelée AWA.
Sex Workers Promote AIDS Awareness in Senegal
By asoares
(2000) Senegal’s AIDS community turns out in force when the local women’s association, called AWA, holds its board meetings.
Early Sexual Activity Raises HIV Risk for Trinidad and Tobago Girls
(December 2000) Jean Jones (not her real name) spent most of her childhood and early teens at a home for children. At 15, she got lucky and went to live with relatives.
Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change
(November 2000) Most of the sun’s radiation passes through Earth’s atmosphere to warm the planet. Earth’s surface in turn reflects this energy back toward space in the form of infrared (heat) radiation.
Sources of Voting Data
(October 2000) An ancient Indian fable tells of six blind men who, one by one, touch an elephant, surmise what it looks like based on what they feel, and come up with six different “big pictures,” none resembling an elephant.
Youth and the HIV/AIDS Crisis
(August 2000) About half of all people infected with HIV are under age 25, according to World Health Organization estimates, and in less developed countries, up to 60 percent of all new infections are among 15-to-24-year-olds.
Gregory Pincus, Father of the Pill
(2000) Gregory Goodwin “Goody” Pincus was Dr. Pincus because of his Harvard Ph.