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Unlike the hearings last month, though, when Congress presented a nearly united, hostile front against the Big Three, the fight Thursday was not so much over whether Washington should let them fail; almost all the witnesses and lawmakers agreed that would be like "playing Russian roulette with the economy," as Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd put it. But that didn't mean there was anything like a consensus on how to handle the urgent request for a total of $34 billion in bridge loans - $7 billion for Chrysler, $9 billion for Ford and $18 billion for GM. Democrats...
Healthy Prescription Re O for obesity, in your "The Year in Medicine: From A to Z issue [Dec. 1]: One way to fight rising obesity rates would be to tax fat. If I had to pay $10 for every pound I am overweight, I would quickly lose my 25 excess pounds. With a "fat tax," we could pay off our $10 trillion national debt in no time. David Thiessen, Woodstock, Illinois...
Iskenderian: Continuing to raise global awareness of microfinance as a viable way to invest in poor women entrepreneurs and fight poverty around the world is our overarching goal. And the focus on women is really key not only for economic empowerment and empowerment reasons, but also because of the multiplier effect on economies and communities, since women reinvest their profits back into their communities at greater rates than men. One of the products we're developing that I'm most excited about is a pilot program for savings targeting young women and adolescent girls that we're working on with...
...international community’s multilateral approach has slowed the fight against the AIDS epidemic, said Stephen H. Lewis, co-director of AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy organization, last night. In addition, he said, the failure to address sexual violence against women adequately has hastened the spread of HIV. The talk was hosted by the Harvard Global Health and AIDS Coalition and the Anthropology 1825 Speaker Series in connection with World AIDS Day. “I’ve always believed in multilateralism,” said Lewis, who is also a former United Nations special envoy...
...clear the Mumbai group was connected to the Pakistan-supported Lashkar-e-Taiba, but it takes a while before we know how close and structured that relationship was and how much autonomy the attacking unit was operating with," Bruguière says. "LeT is keen to export its fight throughout the region and world but will do so in loose relationships with myriad extremist movements out there. Some will use car explosions, others kamikaze bombers, and others insurgent terrorists who - just maybe - decide to use drugs to keep their strike going longer. If we want to prepare...