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Though President Bush pledged last January to send $3.5 billion to the state and local authorities who will bear the burden of responding to a terrorism emergency, the money was appropriated by Congress only last week. Interviews with dozens of homeland-security officials, from New York City to Long Beach, Calif., reveal that while local authorities around the country are more aware of the potential for terrorist strikes, they lack the resources to upgrade defenses against them. Hospitals say they can't train enough employees to effectively spot and treat victims of biological attacks; fire departments can't afford...
...That?s at least partly because, she said, drug companies aren?t interested in developing ?orphan drugs? for diseases with a relatively low incidence of occurrence. Thus, without the prospect of a cure, few people get tested for the gene. And if they do, they face the added burden of possibly being denied health insurance should the test turn out to be positive. Her message: new social policies are badly needed to protect such people...
...America faced immediate and very critical health problems, notably the epidemic of obesity among the young. "It's every bit as threatening as the terrorist threat," he said, adding it would lead to a level of disease and chronic illness that would confront the country with a crushing economic burden...
...compelling enough to outweigh the benefits of toppling the dictatorship. Anyone using these arguments to reach a morally serious conclusion has to compare the potential difficulties of an invasion to the very real costs of allowing a brutal tyrant to continue unimpeded. Those who ignore the ponderous moral burden entailed by their position are no better than the appeaseniks whose timidity and fear brought ruin to so much of Europe, Asia and North Africa 60 years...
...that keycard access provides to first-years is another, albeit less important, reason to provide them with this privilege. First-years will no longer have to endure long waits outside House entrances trying to visit friends, go to meetings or attend parties. Wider keycard access will also remove the burden for upperclass students who have to descend to their Houses’ outer doors to let in their friends. Making Houses accessible to first-years will make all lives easier and remove the unnecessary barrier between first-years and their upperclass peers...