On this day

On March 4, ...
... 1998 (10 years ago today), the U.S. Supreme Court held unanimously that a victim of same-sex sexual harassment may sue under federal anti-discrimination laws. This interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Righs Act of 1964 came in a decision in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc., a case brought by a man working on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.
... 2005, in a report entitled AIDS in Africa: Three scenarios to 2025, UNAIDS, the joint U.N. program responsible for promoting prevention of HIV/AIDS and care for its victims, stressed choices in combating the disease and underscored consequences, good and bad alike, of each choice.
 
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