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...Despite its domestic agenda, the stimulus package has been warmly welcomed overseas, too. The day after it was revealed, share prices from Hong Kong to London surged. And by again taking action along with the rest of the world (Beijing had previously cut its interest rates in tandem with central banks in other capitals), China is reinforcing its stated willingness to step up and help rebuild the global financial system...
...little Italy. A man walks along the street in shorts, dangling a cigarette from one hand, pushing a stroller with the other. Kids mill around a basketball hoop missing its net. Men chat on a porch nearby. Twenty years ago, people from Mabini, a small city in the central Philippines, started to leave for Italy to find better-paying jobs. Today, some 70% of the neighborhood is supported by monthly checks from Rome or Milan. Now, Italian-inspired villas crowd the town's hilly streets. There are flat-screen TVs, luxury cars and pricey Toblerone chocolates. But, as Florian...
...Family Values The Hospicio De San Jose is a hushed haven from central Manila's crushing heat and traffic. Inside the orphanage's dormitory, Sister Socorro G. Evidente points through a window to Pauline, a 2-year-old napping in the dark, thumb in mouth. When she was a week old, Pauline was left by her mother, who said she was going to work in Dubai. She never came back. Some mothers, Evidente says, "do not even bother to send any money for their kids ... The children grow up feeling like they're really abandoned...
...milk to a seemingly unending stream of foods, drugs, pet foods and toys that over the past two years have killed or injured thousands worldwide. These products all have three words in common: MADE IN CHINA. A large state-owned Chinese company, Sanlu Group, based in Hebei province in central China, as well as several smaller companies, apparently diluted milk products with an additive called melamine. Industrial-grade melamine is a masking agent used to hide the dilution of protein, in this case in milk products, including an infant formula widely popular in China. Nearly 53,000 small children...
...curbside care is simple: you pull up, read about the risks and sign a consent form, then bare your bicep and get a shot--all without leaving the driver's seat. In October in Lynchburg, Va., the Central Virginia Health District's first drive-by clinic served 300 patients in 3 1/2 hours. That's less than 45 seconds per vaccination (and no time cooped up in a room with possible germ spreaders...