Now: July/August 2008
sunday, august 03
Search for a Cure
AIDS 2008
Mexico City
This year's conference marks two milestones. It's the midpoint of the 2010 Global Target on Universal Access for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment -- alas, we're not on target, due to a paucity of health-care workers in developing nations. It's also the first time the meeting will be in Latin America, where more than 1.6 million people have HIV. The largest conference devoted to one global health issue, AIDS 2008 isn't crucial just for scientists and policy makers. With inevitably heartbreaking tales of lives lost and families broken by HIV, it's also a teachable moment for the public. Repeat after us, people: Sexo seguro es muy caliente. -- KR
thursday, august 07
Program
LINUXWORLD CONFERENCE
San Francisco
Think of Linux as your invisible yet ever-present friend. "There's not a single person in the modern world who doesn't use it," says Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. "When you run a
friday, august 08
Go Bullish
GAMES OF THE XXIX OLYMPIAD
Beijing
While foreign firms seek to cash in on the Olympic effect (see our cover story), Chinese investors hope the Games will bring boom times back to the country's stock markets. UBS analysts Louis Shan and Michael Huang wrote in a research note last summer that the host nations of the last 11 Olympics saw their benchmark indices rise by an average of 25% in the year before their Games. So far, China is bucking precedent; three months before the opening ceremonies -- set for August 8, auspicious because the Chinese word for eight rhymes with the word for prosperity -- the Shanghai Composite was down nearly 22% from last August 8. Don't blow out your torch if the Chinese market doesn't return to 2007's heights before the Games. Olympic history suggests hope. In each of the past four Olympiads, the benchmark indices of the host nations gained in the year after the Games as well. -- JC
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