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...regularly. Then came a diagnosis of kidney cancer in August, 2005. ?Ott chose to go to the Hospital Santa Monica in Rosarito, Mexico because the options given to him by American doctors had the potential of causing taxing side effects. Ferguson says her father soon faced a more dangerous fate starting on the first day of his hospital stay. ?They inserted a catheter,? she says, ?and his health deteriorated almost immediately...
...fate of Barry Jefferies is causing nightmares for state and territory governments that spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year trying to keep crocodiles and human beings apart. With more than 100,000 crocodiles living around the coast from Bundaberg, Queensland, to Derby, Western Australia, it's a daunting task. Each attack draws calls for a cull of the reptiles, which have been protected by law since the early '70s, and fresh concerns about the effectiveness of management programs. The Queensland government says its crocodile-control strategy - monitoring populations, removing crocodiles identified as a threat and educating people about...
...hardly surprising that the Palestinian electorate has dispensed with Abbas's party-Sharon had made it abundantly clear that Fatah was irrelevant to the fate of the Palestinians, and Fatah had made it abundantly clear that it had no program beyond waiting in vain for the Americans to intervene. Sharon, meanwhile, pressed ahead with a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and possible follow-ups in the West Bank. Those dramatic moves, however, were never conceived of as steps toward a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians. On the contrary, they were drawn up as an alternative to a negotiated settlement, an attempt...
...Rather than passively accepting his fate, Jones, 67, is fighting back. A decade ago, when he and some fellow retirees realized that their pensions didn't include promised cost-of-living increases, they started the Association of BellTel Retirees, one of hundreds of groups of disaffected former employees that have sprung up in the U.S. to lobby for retirement benefits. As president of the BellTel group, Jones uses the Internet and e-mail to send daily newsletters and legislative alerts to the group's 110,000 members. He's also proven himself to be skilled at corporate politics, successfully orchestrating...
...Although his fate was worse than most, Lin was one of millions of Chinese peasants losing faith in the ability of local governments to improve their lives. Over the past two decades, vast swathes of Chinese farmland have been converted into the factories, highways and power plants that are fueling the country's economic growth. But many farmers complain that they have not been adequately compensated for losing land, sometimes because corrupt local officials have pocketed the money. In Guangdong alone, two million farmers have been displaced by development, according to provincial statistics. These land seizures were...