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...1970s, when U.N. officials first distributed sachets of sugar and salt to refugees in South Asia in an attempt to reduce cholera deaths. Today rehydration salts mixed with clean water are given to millions of poor across Africa and Asia. It works: the glucose in the water slows the exit of fluids from the body, allowing electrolytes to be absorbed through the intestinal walls and thus halting potentially deadly dehydration. (See pictures of the politics of water in Central Asia...
Martinez's early exit should itself be an encouraging signal to moderates that their approach is more viable. A former Orange County (Orlando) mayor and former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Martinez was ushered into the Senate in 2004 by the conservative Republican machine of George W. Bush's political guru, Karl Rove. (His primary campaign smeared his opponent as pro-gay just because he supported hate-crimes legislation.) But that GOP faction eventually exasperated Martinez. It's something Crist needs to think about as he mulls the best way to win the Senate's seat next year...
...while those impulses may appear to be working at cross purposes, they may in fact combine to achieve the war's purpose as defined by President Obama - and thus form the basis of an apparent exit strategy...
...challenge for China is to keep wasteful spending at tolerable levels, to eventually exit the stimulus program without stalling economic recovery, and to tighten monetary policy sooner rather than later to avert runaway asset bubbles - but without killing the markets. It's a difficult balancing act, as last week's near meltdown in Shanghai shows. Having gone through the crucible of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, China's planners may be up to the task. Still, they need to be reminded now and again that ham-handed or poorly timed policymaking will hurt not only their economy, but also...
...takeover of Merrill Lynch, the government's bailout of AIG, the federal budget deficit, the Fed's various new lending programs and the economic outlook. He has also taken to penning occasional Op-Ed pieces - today he has one in the Wall Street Journal explaining the Fed's "exit strategy" once it decides it's safe to take the economy off life support. (Read a two-minute bio of Bernanke...