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May 9, 2002

AIDS Clinical Trials Unit is sponsor of event at Seattle Central Community College













Because of the rise in HIV and STD infections in King County, the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit of the UW and the Student Leadership Division of Multicultural Events and Activities at Seattle Central Community College have joined forces and organized a conference and health fair called “Sex Gets Even Louder.

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ACADEMIC INFORMATION

Textbook Requirements

Each spring the University Book Store asks faculty teaching fall quarter courses to forward their textbook requirements to the store before the end of May.

Internet conference includes Amazon villager

Smart Alecky. Amazon.com closed at a low of around 4 bucks a stub this year. In a spectacular miscalculation, Amazon offered more than $2B in covertible bonds at the height of the stock bubble in 1999. Rather than taking advantage of their frothy stock price to raise capital, AMZN took on a mountain of debt with the expectation that the convertible bonds would quickly hit a strike price of ~$80, convert to stock, and further dilute the outstanding pool of common shares. Instead, AMZN shares fell like a rock as the tech bubble collapsed, and the company’s survival is imperiled as this debt comes due.

‘Sex Gets Even Louder,’ a May 13 and 14 conference and health fair, to educate public about HIV and STDs

Because of the rise in HIV and STD infections in King County, the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit of the University of Washington and the Student Leadership Division of Multicultural Events and Activities at Seattle Central Community College have joined forces and organized a conference and health fair called “Sex Gets Even Louder.”

May 3, 2002

Harborview Presents

Seattle, WA ­ Harborview Medical Center will host an educational event for stroke survivors, their families and friends from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, at the Harborview Research and Training Building, 300 9th Ave., Seattle.

Number of teens — primarily boys — having sex declined in ’90s as adolescent girls lead way in redefining relationships

The number of 15- to 17-year-old boys having sex in the past decade dropped 8.5 percent, and teens were generally acting more responsibly when it came to sex with rates of pregnancy, abortions and sexually transmitted diseases all falling

May 1, 2002

Study finds a huge child care workforce waiting to be trained

A new study demonstrates the challenge facing the nation in carrying out the goal President Bush announced in April to give every young child a jump start on literacy. The workforce the nation must rely on to improve early learning is detailed in the new study: the 2.3 million people who are paid to take care of America’s preschoolers and make sure they are prepared to learn in school.