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...ought to know. The man was House minority leader Dick Gephardt. But what Gephardt didn't explain was why Congress - for the seventh year in a row - has failed to do anything about this crisis. At a time of surging federal deficits, one reason is the price - $800 billion or more over 10 years to provide something close to coverage for all seniors. Conservatives don't want the largest expansion of entitlements since the launch of Medicare to happen on their watch...
...Program reported. The brown cloud, made of smoke and carbon monoxide that cause respiratory illnesses, suppresses up to 15% of the sunlight falling on it. The haze is altering the winter monsoon, cutting rainfall over northwestern Asia by between 20% and 40%, while increasing it farther east - which may explain this summer's exceptionally heavy monsoon in Bangladesh, Nepal and northeast India. But the cloud is not just a regional problem, the scientists stressed. East and Southeast Asia suffer similar haze problems, and "a pollution parcel ... can travel halfway round the globe in a week," said Klaus Toepfer, head...
...ought to know. The man was House minority leader Dick Gephardt. But what Gephardt didn't explain was why Congress--for the seventh year in a row--has failed to do anything about this crisis. At a time of surging federal deficits, one reason is the price--$800 billion or more over 10 years to provide something close to coverage for all seniors. Conservatives don't want the largest expansion of entitlements since the launch of Medicare to happen on their watch...
...crashed more than 20% as the Dow plunged in June and July. Sure enough too, the collective wisdom of the market understands recessions better than the economists. Last week's revised figures show the economy contracted in not just one but three quarters last year. That deep pullback helps explain why the market began tanking in 2000, when economists were insisting the R word was overblown...
...this treacherous terrain, the whales' critical echolocation system--those telltale clicks whales depend on for everything from avoiding predators to finding a mate--can easily become confused. Yet even after years of studying these big-brained creatures, scientists admit that's only an informed guess and doesn't explain groundings elsewhere. "I could give you an unlimited number of scenarios," says veteran Smithsonian cetologist James Mead, "and because we know so little about whale biology, any of them is possible...