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Traditionally, human rights work has been more akin to investigative reporting, but Patrick Ball is the most influential of a handful of people around the world who see that world not in terms of words, but of figures. His specialty is applying quantitative analysis to mountains of anecdotes, finding the correlations that coax out a story that cannot easily be dismissed. Ball is 46, stocky, short, and bearded, with glasses and reddish-brown hair, which he used to wear in a ponytail. His manner is mostly endearing geek. But he is also an evangelist, a true believer in the need to get history right, to tell the truth about suffering and death. Like all evangelists, he can be impatient with people who do not share his priorities; his difficulty suffering fools (a large group, apparently) does not always help his cause. Adapted from the source document.

Responds to seven statements related to the global fight against AIDS. It is argued that the world still does not recognize the severity of the AIDS crisis; the lack of people, not money is the biggest obstacle to defeating AIDS; poor patients can, in fact, follow drug regimens; AIDS treatments might or might not lead to risky behavior, but it is the governments' carelessness that is significant in this regard; socially conservative nations are not culturally protected from AIDS; Asia will not be hit by the AIDS epidemic in the same way as southern Africa; and poverty is not the underlying cause for the AIDS epidemic.

This article addresses the shortcomings of some feminist readings of queer genders. Focussing on masculinity without men, this article discusses the aesthetics and gender politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian tradition. The butch/femme role-playing is excisting not because it represents heterosexual desire and gender(s), but because it does not. As a site of resistance, the butch/femme role-playing challenges heteronormativity in a society where heterosexuality is the dominant code that defines (and in a sense creates) all sexualities, no matter whether we choose to participate or not.