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<p>The project will consist of gathering information from inside the communities that the newspaper serves with its distribution, and readership circulation, in conjunction with HIV/AIDS specialist Dr. I. Jean Davis, PhD. who is in the research and training field, and gathers the statistics along with the CDC.</p>

<p>Serving Skid Row: Evans Clark used to count himself among the thousands of homeless people addicted to drugs and living on the streets of Skid Row in Los Angeles. Now recovered, Clark still finds himself on the streets of Skid Row every day. But now, he's there to help.</p><p>

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<p>What does it take to get a new, large National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant in these lean times?</p>

One of the most stringent problems of the Moldovan society at the moment, especially of the rural society is the absence of the access to information or limited access to the public information. While the price of subscriptions to periodicals is very high for the majority of the village people, and the Radio and TV are at the disposal of the power, the population from the rural regions stays uninformed about different fields of general interest. And this way they the rural people can be easily manipulated by those who have the monopoly on the informational market.

<p>California's unemployment rate crept up to 11.5 percent in May, far worse than the national rate of 9.4 percent. By any measure those numbers are bad. But estimates of the jobless rate for people with developmental disabilities are twice that high. And organizations working to place people with autism and Down syndrome in jobs say they're facing a double hit in the current economy.</p><p>Reporter: Rachel Dornhelm</p>