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<p>ATLANTA (AP) --  The nation's syphilis rate has climbed for the second year in a row, mostly because of an increase in cases among gay and bisexual men, the government said Thursday.</p> <p>Between 2001 and 2002, the syphilis rate rose 9.1 percent from 2.2 cases per 100,000 people to 2.4 cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The rate had dropped every year between 1990 and 2000 before reversing course.</p>

Will Bishop-elect Robinson and his male lover be tested for HIV-AIDS? by Les Kinsolving Along with the enormous Big Media coverage of the Episcopal House of Bishops approving the election of an active homosexual with a male lover to be bishop of New Hampshire, there was nearly eclipsed news in neighboring Massachusetts. The Associated Press reported from Boston: The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has offered $55 million to settle more than 500 clergy sex-abuse lawsuits, documents indicate. A recent report from the state attorney general estimated that more than 1,000 children were abused over six decades. The crisis was...