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To: RealMuLan who wrote (53403)	9/16/2004 11:00:20 AM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 74559

Expert: India Leads World in HIV Cases Sep 15, 5:42 PM (ET) By RAJESH MAHAPATRA NEW DELHI (AP) - India has the world's largest number of HIV-infected people, the head of a top international AIDS-fighting fund said Wednesday, dismissing official figures. "I don't believe in the official statistics. India is already in first place," said Richard G.A. Feachem, executive director of the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Latest U.N. data show the HIV virus has infected 5.6 million people in South Africa and 5.1 million in India. But Feachem said he and many other experts believe India's actual figure is much higher, surpassing South Africa's. The official estimate leaves out many people in this vast country of 1.03 billion who could be carrying the virus without knowing or reporting it, he said. "I won't put a figure on it. I will simply say it is considerably more than 5.1 million," he said. "I am happy to be wrong. But I think I will proved right, soon." apnews.myway.com

To: RealMuLan who wrote (53403)	9/16/2004 12:25:23 PM
From: AC Flyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Only a job, and some pention, nothing more<< But America has so much more to offer. I grew up dreaming of airplanes and flying and of owning some land and of starting a business so that my kids could live a better life. Ordinary dreams, really, nothing too grandiose. I will not pretend to have lived through anything like the kind of privation and turmoil that you may have experienced in China, but in England the horizon of the possible is very close. England is a crowded little country with entrenched elites. There is just not enough room for too much upward mobility. The vast majority of English people live small, cloistered lives. Small houses, small towns, small cars, small dreams. Now this country is not perfect and I have received my share of hard knocks in its rough-and-tumble economy, but America has given me what I came here to find. From reading many of your posts, I think that you still struggle with understanding democracy. Compared with 1970s and 1980s China under the CCP, where nothing was possible unless permitted, the US must appear chaotic to you. Everything here is possible, for the most part. The democratic process is chaotic and messy - that is the nature of democracy - but to someone accustomed to the bureaucratic certainties of totalitarianism, I can understand why that messiness seems like chaotic inefficiency to you. You know, as a health care analyst who is Chinese, you may be perfectly situated to start an enormously successful business. The US population is aging and health care is obviously a growth industry. I have thought hard about importing Chinese medical consumables, but my expertise is in industrial businesses, not in health care. So, what do you think? Wanna start a business?