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More than 80,000 people are currently awaiting a kidney transplant in the U.S. The climb to the top of the waiting list takes anywhere from one to six years, and the delay is both agonizing and potentially deadly - each year, some 6% of patients die while waiting to be matched with a donor. Given those grim statistics, some argue kidney sales should be legalized. Paying in the ballpark of $100,000, Matas argues, is a better economic bet than our current system, in which Medicare pays for indefinite dialysis treatment - which is both costly and debilitating - for nearly...
...common. (Blind rural activist Chen Guangcheng made international headlines in 2005 for exposing just such a campaign by family-planning officials in Eastern China; he was later imprisoned on charges his supporters say were retaliatory.) The law also offers longer maternity leave and other benefits to couples that delay childbearing. Those who volunteer to have only one child are awarded a "Certificate of Honor for Single-Child Parents." Since 1979, the law has prevented some 250 million births, saving China from a population explosion the nation would have difficulty accommodating...
There is a way to get around this, by using adjuvants - chemicals added to a vaccine that boost the immune system's response. That could stretch the world's capacity to more than 2 billion doses. But the U.S. has never licensed an adjuvated flu vaccine, which could delay approval in America. And while Europe doesn't have that problem, if Washington demands pure vaccine from its suppliers, that would affect supply for the rest of the world. For now, adjuvants are seen in the U.S. as a last resort. "Adjuvant use would be contingent upon showing that...
...even minimally, you will know the fears that CIT's failure are fanning again. Analysts say insurers and other large investors could be hit with hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Small businesses say they could be cut off from credit. That could cause more layoffs and further delay an economic recovery. Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank, a Democrat who heads the House Committee on Financial Services, said he has heard from a lot of people who say it will be a big problem for the economy, small businesses in particular, if CIT fails...
...While new types of lending programs are slowly expanding credit to SMEs, things could get worse later this year. The overall boom in bank lending has increased the risk of bad loans that could come back to haunt the financial system and delay economic recovery. Some economists now say that policymakers will want to control credit more tightly in the second half of the year. Their challenge will be to ensure that small businesses that have seen little help thus far don't get further squeezed as the credit explosion is reined...