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...causes of last year's credit crunch. But more than a year after poor lending standards, unregulated products and bonus bonanzas helped spark the worst recession since the Great Depression, many say that reining in Wall Street is the only way to prevent another financial crisis. (Read "Hearings to Begin on Causes of Financial Crisis...
...which he says is a worthy one. But because the treatment for drug-resistant HIV strains is expensive - it requires a constantly changing cocktail of new, pricey drugs - and because adherence to such a complicated drug regimen can be difficult for patients, Kahn believes WHO and other institutions should begin planning for the time that HIV drug resistance begins in earnest, particularly in developing economies. "This is a clarion call. Treatment saves lives. But we have to make a plan for when treatment fails. How will we pay for combined therapy? How can we ensure patients adhere to the treatment...
...Indeed, many scientists worry that we could reach a tipping point at which warming could begin to melt the Arctic permafrost and unleash masses of buried methane - which would then further warm the atmosphere, releasing more methane and continuing in a dangerous feedback cycle. But if we're going to prevent that from happening, we're going to have to find a way other than reducing methane emissions from wetlands. Global food requirements mean that we can't cut back seriously on rice paddy cultivation, and wetlands are far too important to the environment as groundwater filters and buffers against...
...have an important budget coming up this year as we continue to deal with this recession," Murray said, in an explanation for her decision. "The Senate and the constituents from that district deserve to be fully represented before we begin Senate budget deliberations...
...Tensions flared most recently last week when the Chinese government announced it would begin developing high-end tourism on a few of the Paracels as part of an ambitious new plan to draw tourists from around the world to Hainan, a Chinese island province off the mainland's southern coast. But while planners dream of creating a Chinese Hawaii - with the Paracels' clear waters a potential luxury destination for divers - the leaked proposal made Hanoi bristle almost instantly. China has retained de facto control over the archipelago since seizing it in its entirety with gunboats in 1974, but Vietnam...