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...quite simply, a right. But managed competition, which Bill Clinton is on record as favoring, may more nearly resemble an amputation of the limited health rights most Americans already have. Even its boosters are expecting the public to warm to managed competition with the enthusiasm usually reserved for root-canal work...
Government officials insist the Saddam River project, a 350-mile canal linking Baghdad with the Shatt al-Arab waterway south of Basra, is intended only to add 1.5 million acres to Iraq's arable land. Arif al-Delaimi, chief engineer on the project, says the southern portion of the canal was completed in the 1980s and the marshes have been drying up ever since. Instead of driving the inhabitants out, he says, the government has been resettling them around artificial lakes. But Andrew Whitley, executive director of Middle East Watch says, "The land under the water is of little agricultural...
While rebels claim they have been successful in attacking the canal's system of levees, dikes and sluice gates, others within the Shi'ite community say the system is too vast and too easily repaired to be destroyed by the rebels' sporadic attacks. One guerrilla leader admitted that a recent raiding party had detonated more than 1,000 lbs. of TNT in one of the bigger earthworks with little effect. "It just made a small hole that released some water," he said, "but it was repaired in two days using a diesel shovel...
...question remains -- Why? Does the amount of virus a woman is exposed to make a difference? How effective might her vaginal and cervical tissue be as a barrier against infection? Does it matter if a child is infected while still in the womb or during passage through the birth canal...
Camp Hell is the most notorious encampment. About 150 people live there, sleeping in battered trucks, under leaky plastic tarps, in tents pitched by piles of gelatinous garbage and broken beer bottles. The men wash in a , contaminated canal nearby, some lathering up naked by the roadside. Police found a roofer shot in the face and left to die within yards of the camp; a dead body was found floating in a canal not far away. "The price of life around here is less than a 12-pack of beer," says Estes, a 34-year-old woman from Indiana...