HEADING to Italy and planning to shop until you drop? Make time to include a trip to one of the outlet shopping malls scattered throughout the country.
Fewer people are becoming infected with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) around the world but the Philippines is, worryingly, trending in the opposite direction. A 2014 country progress report available on the UNAIDS Web site tells us that in 2000, only one new case every three days was diagnosed; by the end of 2013, there was one new case every two hours. In addition, UNICEF noted that the Philippines was “one of only seven countries globally where the number of new HIV cases increased by over 25% from 2001 to 2009.”
IN THE US last summer, a commercial laid bare some of the realities of expecting: the protruding belly and accompanying lower back pain, the sleepless nights alongside a dozing partner, the discomfort, the calendar countdown. The images played to a soundtrack of a Michael Bolton song about pregnancy, “I Just Can’t Wait to Meet You.”
When danseur Justin Orande was 10, he backed out from his first ballet lesson because of the awkward atmosphere, as there were more girls than boys in the class.
Solar energy is expensive, unreliable, impractical, and uneconomic. These are some of the myths on solar power that Greenpeace wants to bust with its Solar Rooftop Challenge campaign, launched on May 15, which aims to educate and encourage society to ditch coal and switch to harnessing the power of the sun.
