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...demands of our nation must be met with the least possible impact on climate,” Rowe said. “And yet at the same time they must be met with the least possible burden on the economy...
...state-sponsored sterilization of poor women. The law would also include tax incentives for wealthier, more educated couples to have more children. To him, the root of the welfare crisis lies in poor people reproducing faster than those who are presumably more qualified to have children. Poverty is a burden on the state, and diminishing that burden is apparently as simple as sterilizing poor people...
...developing world, and 1.7 million people died from it. More alarming is a growing subset of TB cases, estimated at half a million, that are resistant to more than one of the handful of anti-TB drugs. While they still make up only 5% of the total annual TB burden, these cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB are mushrooming, fueled by both the surge in H.I.V./AIDS and health systems that have ignored the threat of TB for too long...
...Instead, stimulus is quickly becoming the order of the day. Taiwan recently unveiled a $5.6 billion spending package for its sagging economy that included subsidized mortgages and new infrastructure projects. Japan's Cabinet on Sept. 29 proposed a $17 billion supplementary budget to help ease the burden of high energy and food prices on businesses. Newly installed Prime Minister Taro Aso is also calling for tax cuts to boost domestic demand. "Rebuilding the Japanese economy is an issue of utmost urgency," Aso said in his first policy speech. China, which could see its GDP growth rate fall below 10% next...
...developing world, and 1.7 million people died from it. More alarming is a growing subset of TB cases, estimated at half a million, that are resistant to more than one of the handful of anti-TB drugs. While they still make up only 5% of the total annual TB burden, these cases of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB are mushrooming, fueled by the surge in AIDS and by health-care systems that have ignored the threat of TB for too long...