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Miami Herald - ... kicked off this weekend with an event to select the decadent 10-day festival's king and queen. Key West residents Chris Lippa and Mary Lou Hoover were crowned festival king and queen late Friday, selected because they raised the most funds for AIDS ...

Oregonian - But he had a real fetish for Band-Aids and business cards. He had to have a Band-Aid when a player was taped up, or would show you a scratch on his finger that needed one. As for business cards, he asked for them everywhere, from Chinese restaurants ...

Detroit Free Press - Wagenheim and others active in the cause say most of the Michigan coalition's money aids people on the ground. The coalition has pushed to raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur. Sudan has been a country wracked by civil war for more than 20 years ...

San Francisco Gate - In the group I hang out with, 100 miles is a training ride," said cyclist Curt Simon of San Rafael, who has biked 508 miles to Death Valley and back over a weekend and calls the AIDS Ride, a 545-mile trek from San Francisco to Los Angeles over seven ...

News.com.au - Faiths and Cultures in Dialogue", with topics to include AIDS, immigration, the plight of Africa and the quest for peace in the Middle East. The Sant'Egidio community is the "bridge in this search for common points and continues to work for dialogue ...

Detroit Free Press - It's the sixth collection of the award-winning Free Press comic strip "Pearls Before Swine." Noted: That the Elton John AIDS Foundation's 6th annual An Enduring Vision benefit in New York raised nearly $2.3 million for grant-making programs that support ...

Miami Herald - AIDS was the gay cancer then,'' he says. ''My family freaked. For 2-3 years I almost never came home.'' Did that have anything to do with Bugchasers ? ''Oh, I wouldn't be surprised,'' he says. His immediate inspiration was the ''bugchaser'' parties he ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Despite the fact that an estimated one million Americans live with HIV/AIDS, a significant number of middle-aged and older black men engage in high-risk sexual behaviors, a new study has found. In 2004, 50 percent of new HIV cases were African ...

Times Online - They are, to my mind, heroes who fight an impossible fight against diseases like malaria, TB and HIV/Aids. With malaria, their battle is colossal: three million people die each year because of the disease – mostly infants, young children and ...

The Independent - We have a first lady who goes to Africa and tells the people 'to practice abstinence', that 'Aids is an affliction'. Honey, please. Those two daughters – are they practising abstinence? I want to see their gynaecological records, because if they're ...