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...building materials every 10 weeks until the room was finished (about 70 weeks - customers were on their own for the actual building). Patrimonio Hoy attracted 42,000 new customers and is expected to turn a $1.5 million profit this year. Cemex plans to expand the program into Colombia, Venezuela, Egypt and the Philippines. Diega Chavero, 38, of Zapopan, Mexico, thought the scheme was a scam when she first heard of it, but after eight years of being unable to save enough to expand the one-room home where her family of six lived, she was willing to try anything. Four...
Sources: National Geographic; Egypt Supreme Council of Antiquities; The Tomb of Tutankhamen, by Howard Carter; Guide to the Valley of the Kings, by Alberto Siliotti
...year four groups--WHO, Rotary International, UNICEF and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)--made it their goal to vaccinate polio out of existence, and with the help of private and government funding, they came tantalizingly close. By 2003, the virus was confined to six countries--Nigeria, Niger, Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India--and was seemingly headed for extinction by 2005. But nobody reckoned on the Muslim clerics in northern Nigeria...
...other countries in which polio has re-emerged are getting intensive attention too. In Nigeria there are six nationwide rounds of vaccinations scheduled for 2005. In other countries, such as Yemen, Egypt and India, the immunization program is getting a boost from a so-called monovalent vaccine, which more effectively knocks out the Type 1 poliovirus circulating in those areas. But even the best immunization campaign will leave a lot of poliovirus at large, at least for a while. WHO and other groups still hope to eradicate the disease this year in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, where polio was endemic...
...year-old State of Emergency, suggesting that terrorists would have put the country "in ruins" without it. The flattering questions, tossed by veteran talk show host Emadeddin Adib, projected the feeling that Egyptians should happy to have Mubarak for a leader. In contrast to the jittery mood in Egypt following last week's terrorist attacks, at one point in phrasing a question Adib praised Mubarak with the words, "One does not worry when you are around...