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Melamine, the cheap compound used to bulk up baby formula in China that has sickened at least 1,200 babies across the country and killed at least two so far, once had a much less dubious purpose and, in fact, can be found in some form in most American homes...
...Africans access the Internet, a percentage far lower than in Asia, Europe or the Americas. In only a handful of African countries do more than 1% of the population use broadband services. (Among OECD countries, broadband penetration averages 18%.) And the services that exist don't come cheap. Broadband costs more in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else in the world: consumers in the region spent an average of $366 each month for speedier Internet access in 2006, according to the World Bank. Users in India, meanwhile, paid just...
...large-scale efforts to connect the continent are picking up speed. On Sept. 9, O3b Networks - a Channel Islands-based telco backed by Google, HSBC and U.S. cable-TV operator Liberty Global - unveiled plans to offer cheap, high-speed Internet access via satellite to developing regions like Africa by the end of 2010. It's not the only ambitious scheme to bring the continent online. In recent months, work has begun on initiatives to connect countries in eastern and southern Africa - the only major populated regions not hooked up to the global broadband network of fiber-optic cables - to each...
...unproven and hypothetical side effects. Health officials should continue to monitor the vaccination, but all current information shows only benefits to the vaccine.The vaccine has been criticized for being costly at $120 per dose. In order to remedy this, health officials should work to make the vaccine as cheap and accessible as possible, and more insurance companies should include it in their coverage plans. Some people also object to the time the three-part process takes. Even if it is slightly time-consuming, all of the vaccine’s benefits make the inconvenience worth it. At least 50 percent...
...investment from the very institutions that decimated its traditional economy. The European Union's Common Fisheries Policy ran Arbroath's fishermen out of business; and E.U. agricultural policy for years made it impossible for local farms to compete. But local agriculture has recovered by accepting an influx of cheap labor from Poland and other new European states. Arbroath's harbor has been regenerated by $2 million in E.U. grants that have turned its once-forbidding granite docks into a recreational marina with berths for 58 yachts - and a waiting list for more. Even the final surviving vestige of Arbroath...