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(CNN) -- Former Italian international striker Christian Vieri has left Serie A side Atalanta by mutual consent, blaming constant jeering from the club's fans for his decision to leave.

Veteran striker Vieri scored twice in nine appearances for Atalanta this season

The 35-year-old, back at his third stint with the Bergamo-based side, has failed to make an impression this season, and has become the focus of fans' frustrations after scoring just two goals in nine appearances.

"I want to thank Atalanta for the way they have dealt with me throughout the season and throughout my previous experiences wearing the black and blue shirt," said Vieri in a statement on the club's official Web site.

Atalanta president Alessandro Ruggeri revealed the club had wanted the former Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan striker to stay but that his mind was made up.

"I'm disappointed as I'm sure everyone who loves football is. I don't know what he will do now, whether or not he will continue to play after this experience with Atalanta," said Ruggeri.

"I haven't spoken to him yet but my colleagues have and he was adamant, I don't think there was any way to make him stay."

Vieri has changed clubs 13 times since beconing a professional in 1991, playing for Italy's three biggest teams as well as Atletico Madrid in Spain and Monaco in France.

His best season was in 2002-03, when he scored 24 goals in 23 league appearances for Inter.

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(CNN) -- A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rattled Papua New Guinea early Friday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The quake was centered about 200 miles north-northeast of Port Moresby and had a depth of 28 miles.

No tsunami warning was issued, according to the Tsunami Warning Center.

Papua New Guinea is on the so-called Ring of Fire, an arc of fault lines circling the Pacific Basin that is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

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Forget about 20/20. "Perfect" vision could be redefined by gadgets that give you the eyes of a cyborg.

The surface of the eye can be used to measure much of the same data you would get from blood tests.

The tech industry calls the digital enrichment of the physical world "augmented reality." Such technology is already appearing in smartphones and toys, and enthusiasts dream of a pair of glasses we could don to enhance our everyday perception. But why stop there?

Scientists, eye surgeons, professors and students at the University of Washington have been developing a contact lens containing one built-in LED, powered wirelessly with radio frequency waves.

Eventually, more advanced versions of the lens could be used to provide a wealth of information, such as virtual captions scrolling beneath every person or object you see. Significantly, it could also be used to monitor your own vital signs, such as body temperature and blood glucose level.

Why a contact lens? The surface of the eye contains enough data about the body to perform personal health monitoring, according to Babak Parvis, a University of Washington professor of bionanotechnology, who is working on the project.

"The eye is our little door into the body," Parvis told Wired.com.

With gadgets becoming increasingly mobile and powerful, the technology industry is seeing a steady stream of applications devoted to health. A few examples include a cellphone microscope used to diagnose malaria, surgeons honing their skills with the Nintendo Wiimote, and an iPhone app made for diabetes patients to track their glucose levels.

A contact lens with augmented-reality powers would take personal health monitoring several steps further, Parvis said, because the surface of the eye can be used to measure much of the data you would read from your blood tests, including cholesterol, sodium, potassium and glucose levels.

And that's just the beginning. Because this sort of real-time health monitoring has been impossible in the past, there's likely more about the human eye we haven't yet discovered, Parvis said.

And beyond personal health monitoring, this finger-tip sized gadget could one day create a new interface for gaming, social networking and, well, interacting with reality in general.

Parvis and his colleagues have been working on their multipurpose lens since 2004. They integrated miniature antennas, control circuits, an LED and radio chips into the lens using optoelectronic components they built from scratch.

They hope these components will eventually include hundreds of LEDs to display images in front of the eye. Think words, charts and even photographs.

Sounds neat, doesn't it? But the group faces a number of challenges before achieving true augmented eye vision.

First and foremost, safety is a prime concern with a device that comes in contact with the eye. To ensure the lens is safe to wear, the group has been testing prototypes on live rabbits, who have successfully worn the lenses for 20 minutes at a time with no adverse effects.

However, the lens must undergo much more testing before gaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

A fundamental challenge this contact lens will face is the task of tracking the human eye, said Blair MacIntyre, an associate professor and director of the augmented environments lab at Georgia Tech College of Computing. MacIntyre is not involved in the contact lens product, but he helped develop an augmented-reality zombie shooter game.

"These developments are obviously very far from being usable, but very exciting," MacIntyre said. "Using them for AR will be very hard. You need to know exactly where the user is looking if you want to render graphics that line up with the world, especially when their eyes saccade (jump around), which our eyes do at a very high rate."

Given that obstacle, we're more likely to see wearable augmented-reality eyeware in the form of glasses before a contact lens, MacIntyre said. With glasses, we'll only need to track where the glasses are and where the eyes are relative to them as opposed to where the eyes are actually looking.

And with a contact lens, it will be difficult to cram heavy computational power into such a small device, even with today's state-of-the-art technologies, Parvis admits.

There are many advanced sensors that would amplify the lens' abilities, but the difficulty lies in integrating them, which is why Parvis and his colleagues have had to engineer their own components. And when the contact lens evolves from personal health monitoring into more processor-intense augmented-reality applications, it's more likely it will have to draw its powers from a companion device such as a smartphone, he said.

Layar, an Amsterdam-based startup focusing on augmented reality, shares University of Washington's vision of an augmented-reality contact lens. However, Raimo van der Klein, CEO of Layar, said such a device's vision would be limited if it did not work with an open platform supporting every type of data available via the web, such as mapping information, restaurant reviews or even Twitter feeds.

Hence, his company has taken a first step by releasing an augmented-reality browser for Google Android smartphones, for which software developers can provide "layers" of data for various web services.

Van der Klein believes a consumer-oriented, multipurpose lens is just one example of where augmented-reality technology will take form in the near future. He said to expect these applications to move beyond augmenting vision and expand to other parts of the body.

"Imagine audio cues through an earpiece or sneakers vibrating wherever your friends are," van der Klein said. "We need to keep an open eye for future possibilities, and I think a contact lens is just part of it."

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British man who has just claimed the world land sailing speed record is now planning to better his speed -- on ice.

Greenbird, driven by Briton Richard Jenkins has claimed the land sailing speed record

Using just wind power, Richard Jenkins drove his vehicle, the Greenbird, to 202 km/hour (126 miles/hour) in late March on the dry Lake Ivanpah near the border of California and Nevada in the western United States.

Greenbird is a carbon fibre composite craft -- described by the makers on their Web site as "part airplane, part sailboat and part Formula One car" -- that uses solid sails to harness the power of the wind.

It weighs 600 kg and is able to travel up to four or five times greater than the speed of the wind -- at which point the downward force of the wings increases the craft's weight to nearly a ton. The only metal in the structure is in the wing bearings and the wheel.

Jenkins told CNN the record came after the team, which is sponsored by UK-based green electricity company Ecotricity, made gains in all aspects of the vehicle's design.

"It's a real mixture of everything -- all of the margins are so tight you have to make a little gain in every place."

The technologically advanced Greenbird works by using the flow of air over its vertical sail to push it forward. It transfers the side force of wind into downward energy to keep it from taking off -- a similar concept to that used in Formula One race cars.

Greenbird's record speed defeated the previous record set by American Bob Schumacher in 1999. Schumacher, in what he described as a "boat" called the "Iron Duck," managed 116 miles per hour.

View a photo gallery of the successful speed record attempt Â»

Jenkins told CNN he had been working towards the record for about 10 years and was ecstatic to have managed the feat.

"We had been working on this for a long time. It started when I was at university...so it was great to finally achieve the record."

The 32-year-old said bad weather and attracting sponsorship had been the main challenges in preparing to set the record.

"You have to be very lucky for the weather to be right at the right time. For years I thought we were going to be unlucky."

With the land sailing record under his belt, Jenkins now plans to return to work on his Greenbird ice sailing craft -- which he feels has the potential to be even quicker than the Greenbird land racer.

"Theoretically it should be a lot faster, but currently ice yachts are not as quick as land yachts. We are not completely sure why."

Jenkins said his next ice sailing attempt would likely take place in December this year on Canyon Ferry Lake in Montana, where the ice is large and secure enough for the vehicle.

It is also important to make attempts before snow falls on the ice, creating more drag, Jenkins added.

Ice sailing is significantly more risky than land sailing, he told CNN.

"Depending on when you go, the ice can be a lot more unstable. There is the risk that you could go through a water-hole into the ice. We try not to think about it," Jenkins said.

For more about the Greenbird land and ice craft, go to Greenbird.co.uk

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I tried to reach my teenage daughter the other day. I left a voice mail, sent an e-mail message and finally texted her and told her to check both and call me back.

Seconds later, she texted back one letter: "K." She is 19 and has been sending and receiving upwards of 3,000 texts per month. One month, she hit 7,500! She is not unusual at all.

According to Nielsen Mobile, in the first quarter of 2009, the average U.S. teen made and received an average of 191 phone calls and sent and received 2,899 text messages per month. By the third quarter, the number of texts had jumped to a whopping 3,146 messages per month, which equals more than 10 texts per every waking non-school hour. (At the beginning of 2007, those numbers were 255 phone calls and 435 text messages.) Preteens sent and received 1,146 texts per month.

My daughter doesn't answer her phone because to her, it is no longer a phone.

We are in the midst of four distinct generations of Americans: Baby Boomers (born 1946-64), Generation X (1965-79), Net Generation (1980-89) and the new iGeneration (born in the 1990s and beyond and given the "i" designation to represent media such as iPods and the Wii but also to reflect the "individualized" nature of their media).

Until recently, "communicate" meant to talk face-to-face or on the phone. But both the Net Generation and the iGeneration have turned the concept of communication upside down. The old ways are, well, old. It is now all about texting, IMing, Facebooking, Skype-ing -- pretty much anything but talking live or on the phone.

I know that this is alarming to many, but quite honestly, people must recognize that this is the way it is now and is going to be -- at least until the next new form of e-communication bursts into our world. If you have a teenager (or even a preteen), for example, you must learn how to text, or you two will never "connect." To this generation, it is all about connection, but those connections are, for the most part, electronic.

It is important to note that although experts agree about the two older generations, not everyone agrees on "defining" the last two generations. They are called Generation Y and Millennials by some and, as far as their demarcation dates, well, that is open to fierce discussion.

From my research with 3,000 Americans, the final two generations are defined not by a letter or by their birth year but by their use of technology and media, their need and ability to multitask, their rapid acceptance of anything new and their view of the meaning of technology. All of which lead to differences in personal and work values and often to disharmony in the family, school and the workplace.

In my research, we query people about daily media activities as well as those they choose during free time. We find striking generational differences.

Older teens and Net Geners spend more than 20 hours per day using media. This is accomplished not by not sleeping but with considerable multitasking, which peaks at seven simultaneous activities for older teens.

Setting aside music (with its omnipresent ear buds), preferred media choices differ dramatically across generations: For children, it's television; for tweens, it's video games; for teens, it's texting and social networking; and for Net Geners and Gen Xers, it's being online. And for Boomers, it's, of course, back to television.

The roots of these differences lie in the origin and pace of technological change, particularly among the most recent generations. Net Geners were early adopters of the Internet, which they came to view as a valuable tool.

iGeners, however, are different. They know no other world than that of the Web, texting and social networking. They were online when they could sit up and sent an e-mail to Grandma; they made MySpace a household name by their early teens. They live in their own bedroom "TechnoCocoons," where new technologies appear and penetrate society in months rather than years.

Although the telephone took 20 years to reach 50 million users, the Web took four years, iPods three and MySpace two, and YouTube hit 50 million users in one year. The iGeneration is driving these consumer trends. Individuals in this group watch more than 100 YouTube videos a month, download apps, MySpace and Facebook (now verbs), and text the night away. They don't see technology as a tool. For them, it is just life.

These generational differences have tremendous ramifications for the family, education and the workplace. Parents are upset that their children multitask and yet are perplexed that they can balance all their technology and do well in school. Teachers struggle to reconcile their need to have students read books, do worksheets and pay attention in class (unitasking) while students want multitasking technologies.

Bosses want meetings (more unitasking), goals and progress reports, while their Gen X and Net Gen employees want to do it their way through multitasking and flex time. These differences permeate every system and cause parents, teachers and bosses to tear their hair out.

Yet those pesky multitasking kids are the smartest generation ever, with high professional aspirations. Some may call them narcissistic, but they are really a highly social generation (albeit with much of the socializing done online); they value family, revere friendship (some "virtual"), consume massive quantities of information (again, much of it online) and are the most "communicating" generation yet.

But to us "old fogies," it seems like they are just chatting aimlessly, sending brief tweets with funny acronyms that make no sense (could you decipher the text message at the beginning of this article?). They text while they walk (sometimes into trees) and keep their cell phones on vibrate while they sleep.

No one really has a choice but to accept their world and learn to adapt. The Net Geners and iGeners will soon be the country's parents, teachers, bosses and political leaders, and their techie style will become the norm. We may not like it, but we have to admit that they are happy, successful and engaged with all their media and technology.

I may have to text my daughter to get her attention, but I am also bewildered and awed by her mastery of anything new and amazed at how she can balance her media and college and maintain an A average at Yale.

It is their world. Watch out for the young ones who are already surfing the Net at 2.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Larry Rosen.

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(CNN) -- This month on Art of Life we feel the need for speed.  From the world's first road-legal grand prix bike to a rock legend with a passion for aviation.

Monita Rajpal samples the finest in Italian motorbikes

Monita Rajpal meets the boys behind Ducati's motorbikes, Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson explains why flying is his new source of adrenaline, and trance legend Paul Van Dyk takes us round his favorite haunt in the former East Berlin.

Ducati: Riding in Style

Ducati has long-been the ultimate name in luxury motorbikes, but just like its racers, the company has had to compete fiercely to defend its title. As a small Italian manufacturer, up against Japanese mega-plants, employing thousands of workers, Ducati's comparatively small family is driven by pride. CNN's Monita Rajpal visits the Bologna factory floor and talks to some of the men behind the company, meets Ducati's Moto GP champion Casey Stoner and takes a test drive of Ducati's Desmosedici racing replica, the world's first road-legal grand prix bike. Watch Monita's trip to the Ducati factory

Bruce Dickinson: Rock star in the sky

A leather-clad, long-haired pilot, donning a t-shirt with blood-spewing skeletons would be a nightmare for many uneasy flyers. Fortunately for passengers on Bruce Dickinson's plane, the lead singer of Iron Maiden has gotten a new wardrobe and a new day job. Art of Life meets up with the rock legend to find out why he has chosen to take to the skies and become a commercial airline pilot. Watch Dickinson take to the skies

Paul Van Dyk: Guides us through Germany

Paul Van Dyk, the legendary trance musician, DJ and producer has made his name well-known, even though his genre of music is typically associated with young ravers and more urban listeners. Watch as Van Dyk takes Art of Life on a tour of his hometown, the former East Berlin, and shows how he has drawn from the city's war-weathered rhythms to gain inspiration for his songs. Watch Van Dyk tour Berlin  E-mail to a friend

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(CNN) -- South African runner Caster Semenya will be allowed to keep the gold medal she won in the women's 800-meters at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany, in August, the country's sports ministry announced Thursday.

In a statement on their official Web site the ministry added that Semenya had been found innocent of any wrongdoing but the widely anticipated results of gender tests conducted would not be made public.

"We have agreed with the IAAF that whatever scientific tests were conducted legally within the IAAF regulations will be treated as a confidential matter between patient and doctor," the statement read.

"As such there will be no public announcement of what the panel of scientists has found. We urge all South Africans and other people to respect this professional ethical and moral way of doing things."

The world governing body for athletics, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), have refused to comment on the announcement, only reiterating a statement published on their official Web site on Wednesday that the release of their gender-test findings would be delayed until "further notice."

The IAAF had been expected to release its findings on February 20, but confirmed it had been in discussions with the South African Ministry of Sport and Recreation with a view to "resolving the issues surrounding Caster Semenya's participation in athletics."

The IAAF went on to say that the medical tests on Semenya had still to be completed.

"There will be no discussion of Semenya's case at the forthcoming IAAF Council Meeting to be held in Monaco on 20-21 November 2009. No further comment will be made on this subject until further notice," their statement read.

Reports in two newspapers in September said the results of the tests showed Semenya has both male and female characteristics. The IAAF has declined to confirm those reports.

The South African ministry added they had been unhappy with way the testing had been handled: "We have asked the IAAF to apologize at the way the whole Caster Semenya saga was dealt with.

"Their response is: 'It is deeply regrettable that information of a confidential nature entered the public domain.' The IAAF is adamant that the public discourse did not originate with them.

"We also cannot prove the contrary. It is our considered view that this chapter of blame apportioning must now be closed. The sport bodies must be allowed to deal with the rest of the investigations in terms of their own regulations," the statement added.

The controversy over Semenya erupted after she crushed her rivals in the 800 meters and secured victory in one minute, 55.45 seconds -- the best women's time in the world this year.

Semenya's masculine build and dominant performance fueled existing questions about her gender, and the IAAF -- which oversees the sport worldwide -- ordered tests to be carried out.

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question: Who is Caster Semenya?

answer: African runner

text: African runner

question: What did the IAAF do?

answer: February 20, but confirmed it had been in discussions with the South African Ministry of Sport and Recreation with a view to "resolving the issues surrounding Caster Semenya's participation in athletics."

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question: Who will  keep her gold medal?

answer: Caster Semenya

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answer: Caster Semenya

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question: What is the response of the IAAF?

answer: 'It is deeply regrettable that information of a confidential nature entered the public domain.'

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question: Who has refused to comment?

answer: the International Association of Athletics Federations

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question: What did the ministry say?

answer: Semenya had been found innocent of any wrongdoing

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question: Who stated that the results of a gender test would not be made public?

answer: sports ministry

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Nearly a year after being beaten into a coma, Bryan Steinhauer said Wednesday he does not hate the Serbian basketball player witnesses said brutally assaulted him.

Bryan Steinhauer, who was beaten into a coma, is making significant progress in his rehabilitation.

"I am not full of hate; hatred kills progress," he said.

Appearing alongside his parents and doctors at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, Steinhauer struggled to speak but his message was clear.

"Please don't feel sorry for me," he said. "Tragedy leads to wisdom, and this experience has taught me so much about life."  Watch Steinhauer talk about his recovery Â»

The 22-year-old from Brooklyn was about to graduate and had a job lined up at accounting giant KPMG when he got into an argument last May that nearly cost him his life.

According to police, witnesses said Steinhauer and college basketball player Miladin Kovacevic had exchanged harsh words at an upstate New York bar near Binghamton University after Steinhauer danced with the girlfriend of one of Kovacevic's friends.

The witnesses said the fight went outside the bar, where several men attacked Steinhauer, with Kovacevic beating him about the head, according to police. Kovacevic is 6-foot-9 and 260 pounds while Steinhauer was 130 pounds.

Kovacevic was arrested but jumped bail and fled to Serbia with the help of Serbian consular officials in New York.

The case strained relations between the United States and Serbia.Hillary Clinton intervened, first as U.S. senator from New York and later as secretary of state, as did Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, to make sure Kovacevic was prosecuted.

Serbia has no extradition treaty with the United States, but Serbian officials arrested Kovacevic last October and are working on prosecuting him with the assistance of the district attorney of Broome County, where the beating took place.

In addition, the Serbian government recently paid the Steinhauer family $900,000 in recognition of the misconduct of Serbian government officials and the financial burdens placed upon the Steinhauer family as a result of the beating.

Steinhauer awoke from his coma last August, three months after the beating that left him with skull fractures, a severe brain injury and no memory of the attack. He weighed less than 100 pounds, could not speak or walk, and was fed through a tube, doctors said Wednesday.

"He had hemorrhages and contusions affecting almost every lobe of his brain," said Dr. Brian Greenwald.

Working with specialists and boosted by the support of his family, Steinhauer surprised even his doctors in his quick recovery, they said. He now has outpatient rehabilitation four times a week, goes to a gym, and receives acupuncture treatments. While he can eat on his own now and is making significant progress, Steinhauer continues to undergo intensive therapy.

Steinhauer says he doesn't think about Kovacevic because he's not concerned about other people.

"I've had a second birth and raising at Mount Sinai," he said. "Live long and prosper."

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question: who  jumped bail, fled to Serbia?

answer: Kovacevic

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answer: Miladin Kovacevic

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Washington (CNN)  -- On a Saturday at the Lamar Edward Salon, a small cluster of women watch a demonstration of a new product.

Their giggles turn into growing interest. They learn the city is handing out free samples, but it's not shampoo or makeup products. Instead, the women can leave the salon with free female condoms tucked into their purses.

Co-owner Gerald Armstrong said his salon is a perfect place for a frank discussion about safe sex.

"We talk about beauty and we talk about hair and makeup and things to make them feel better," Armstrong said. "We should start talking about things that are helping them to live longer."

Faced with an HIV infection rate six times higher than the national average, District of Columbia officials are launching an unorthodox campaign to halt the spread of the disease. They will hand out 500,000 female condoms at salons and community centers and offer informal training sessions to teach women how to use the little-known product.

About 30 percent of people infected in Washington are women, and the numbers are growing, said Shannon Hader, senior deputy director of the district's Department of Health. HIV is particularly prevalent among African-Americans, and more black women between 25 and 34 will die from HIV/AIDS nationwide than from any other cause.

"Women haven't really gotten the message that they're at risk," Hader said. "So we are very, very concerned with making sure that women in the district realize that HIV, in fact, is a woman's disease too."

In the past, the higher price of female condoms kept them from reaching the ubiquity of the male condom. A newly released version, called FC2, is cheaper and designed to be more user-friendly, but the female condom is still relatively unknown.

So when health officials in Washington decided to use a $500,000 grant from the M.A.C. AIDS Fund to distribute female condoms, they allocated a portion for marketing.

"One of the things about female condoms is that they're a new product to most people," Hader said. "So like any new product, you can't expect it just to sell itself, just to take off on its own."

The city trained outreach workers to demonstrate female condom use and then sent them into salons and onto college campuses to reach women where they already feel comfortable.

Charlene Cotton became an outreach worker after she discovered she was HIV-positive six years ago. Now Cotton has begun giving demonstrations on the female condom.

She says she's a convert.

"It will give a woman a choice, freedom to use protection when a man feels as though that he doesn't have to use a condom," Cotton said. "And it gives her the opportunity to say, 'Well you don't have to use one, so I'll use one.' "

She said demonstrators ask women to take home three female condoms in the hopes it will increase their familiarity with the product.

"Try it three times," Cotton said. "First time, experiment [with] it, you feel it, try to apply it. Second time, apply it again. And the third time, use it with your friend. And if they're not convinced by the third time," then they probably won't continue to use it, she said.

Before Katrina Byrd saw a demonstration she was not enthusiastic about using an "unattractive" female condom. But after another woman offered tips on female condom use and explained the condoms could prevent sexually transmitted diseases, Byrd said she would give them a chance.

"I'll try it," Byrd said. "I'll see if through my own experience I'll like it."

That's the response that prevention advocates are hoping to hear.

"HIV and AIDS has declared war on our communities, particularly on African-American women. And I feel that we are justified as health care providers to look for every single avenue to fight back," said Dr. Celia Maxwell, director of the Women's Health Institute at Howard University. "For me the important thing would be that even one women is spared from becoming infected."

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text: Cotton

text: said

text: First

text: time

text: experiment

text: with

text: it

text: you

text: feel

text: it

text: try

text: to

text: apply

text: it

text: Second

text: time

text: apply

text: it

text: again

text: And

text: the

text: third

text: time

text: use

text: it

text: with

text: your

text: friend

text: And

text: if

text: they

text: 're

text: not

text: convinced

text: by

text: the

text: third

text: time

text: then

text: they

text: probably

text: wo

text: n't

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text: to

text: use

text: it

text: she

text: said

text: Before

text: Katrina

text: Byrd

text: saw

text: a

text: demonstration

text: she

text: was

text: not

text: enthusiastic

text: about

text: using

text: an

text: unattractive

text: female

text: condom

text: But

text: after

text: another

text: woman

text: offered

text: tips

text: on

text: female

text: condom

text: use

text: and

text: explained

text: the

text: condoms

text: could

text: prevent

text: sexually

text: transmitted

text: diseases

text: Byrd

text: said

text: she

text: would

text: give

text: them

text: a

text: chance

text: I

text: 'll

text: try

text: it

text: Byrd

text: said

text: I

text: 'll

text: see

text: if

text: through

text: my

text: own

text: experience

text: I

text: 'll

text: like

text: it

text: That

text: 's

text: the

text: response

text: that

text: prevention

text: advocates

text: are

text: hoping

text: to

text: hear

text: HIV

text: and

text: AIDS

text: has

text: declared

text: war

text: on

text: our

text: communities

text: particularly

text: on

text: African

text: American

text: women

text: And

text: I

text: feel

text: that

text: we

text: are

text: justified

text: as

text: health

text: care

text: providers

text: to

text: look

text: for

text: every

text: single

text: avenue

text: to

text: fight

text: back

text: said

text: Dr.

text: Celia

text: Maxwell

text: director

text: of

text: the

text: Women

text: 's

text: Health

text: Institute

text: at

text: Howard

text: University

text: For

text: me

text: the

text: important

text: thing

text: would

text: be

text: that

text: even

text: one

text: women

text: is

text: spared

text: from

text: becoming

text: infected

question: who is distributing them

answer: the Lamar Edward Salon,

text: the Lamar Edward Salon,

question: who says "It will give a woman a choice, freedom to use protection"?

answer: Cotton

text: Cotton

question: what training sessions to teach women how to use the little-known?

answer: female condoms

text: female condoms