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...based Merial Ltd. Reports in British media said investigators were focusing on the Merial facility because it has recently done research on the 01 BFS67 strain, in an effort to determine whether human error or a breach in biosecurity - such as a faulty ventilation system - could be to blame...
...cheaper in China. Americans would buy less, the Chinese would buy more, thus reducing the huge trade imbalance between the countries-- $20 billion in May alone and $233 billion in all of 2006. This deficit is a big political issue in America's industrial heartland, where China gets the blame for a 19% drop in manufacturing employment since...
Hubbard agreed that "there have been enormous benefits to the U.S. economy" from trade with China. But he wasn't buying the argument that the strong yen caused Japan's economic troubles in the 1990s--pinning the blame instead on "extremely poor" monetary policy and messed-up banks. And while admitting that "we don't really know the appropriate value" of the currency alternately and confusingly known as the yuan or renminbi (RMB), Hubbard rejected the idea that keeping it low helps the Chinese economy. "To the extent that there is an undervalued exchange rate, this is bad for China...
...authorities prefer to blame extreme weather conditions, including strong winds and back-to-back heatwaves that have turned Greece, and much of the Balkans, into a tinderbox. Still, rumors abound that some of the blazes may have been caused by arsonists hired by greedy developers to torch precious patches of greenery on which they want to build. In the last 20 years, large tracts of land have been cleared around Athens by fires, and eight of them have been cleared for construction because Greece lacks a forest register and effective legislation protecting the environment, conservationists argue. "The law," says Nikolaos...
...begin with. Was it caused by a virus? Was it nutritional, as suggested by a study last week in the journal Neurology, which found that having too little vitamin D, normally produced in the body during exposure to sunlight, increases the risk of MS? Or, were genes to blame for inciting the immune system to rebel? Or, was it, as most experts believe, some combination of all of the above...