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...myth that any aid is helpful." JONATHAN WALTER, editor of a report released last week by the Red Cross, criticizing global relief agencies in the wake of Asia's Dec. 26 tsunami. The report said competition between aid organizations to spend huge donations made it difficult to coordinate relief efforts...
...Slim to use the iDJ. Simply slot your iPods into the two docking ports?which also act as chargers?and use the iDJ's controls to navigate your way through the iPods' menus. Once you've selected the tracks you want to play, you can use the system's cross fader to blend songs?although, as you're using MP3s, you won't be able to scratch like a hip-hop DJ. The iDJ also comes with a recording output, which means you can copy your mix onto a computer and then upload it onto the Internet as a podcast...
...village of Kamal Kote, a few miles away from Uri. When he heard of the disaster, he drove home to help out. He hasn't washed or slept since. The army, whose presence in the garrison town of Uri is almost oppressive, has not tried to cross the landslide. "No one has visited here. No doctor, no rescue, no civil administration." From where we are, we can see the green roofs of army cantonments, littered back up the valley...
...Fazio melodrama comes as Italy--the world's seventh largest economy--continues to struggle with European economic integration. Cross-border bank mergers are common in the euro zone, but not in Italy, where the banking system remains largely a fortress under the eye of the all-powerful central banker. Although Fazio no longer sets the price of money, he has wielded every ounce of his notable clout. His stated goal is for Italian banks to be at the service of Italian businesses. In practice, this has meant keeping foreign firms out. It's a shortsighted view and dangerous: some blame...
...infect people. Each year the viruses capable of invading human cells mutate slightly in a way that leads to fresh outbreaks, but most people will still have a partial immunity because of previous exposure to similar viruses. Occasionally, though, a strain that had seemed to infect only birds will cross over more or less intact into humans. Because this new strain is so different from garden-variety flu viruses, few people are immune. That is apparently what happened in 1918 and in Hong Kong in 1997, then later in Vietnam and Thailand and in Indonesia this summer and fall...