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With money flowing so freely, nearly every group--from hard-hit farmers to federal contractors--is angling for its piece of the action. The Federal Government is forking over as much as $800 million a day to cover everything from temporary housing and debris removal to generators and bottled water. The next stage of the gold rush should take place near the end of October, when the White House expects to return to Congress for another cash infusion, an Administration official tells TIME...
...majority of Haitians, meanwhile, sink deeper into economic despair. Haiti's annual per capita income is $280, though for 80% of the population it is closer to $100, making Haiti the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. The hard-hit Haitian tourist industry lost $30 million last year, in part because of the high incidence of AIDS in Haiti. The government's often arbitrary imposition of new taxes to fill government coffers has discouraged new investment. Emigration, a traditional relief valve for hard-pressed Haitians, has been closed off as the U.S. and others have cracked down on illegal immigrants...
...most frightening aspect of avian flu has always been its astonishing virulence, but the human death rate in hard-hit northern Vietnam has fallen to 34% this year, down from almost 80% for the entire country in 2004. Good news? Not if you're an epidemiologist. Investigators for the World Health Organization (WHO) have raised concerns that even though the H5N1 bird-flu virus appears to be weakening, it may be adapting better to human beings?potentially opening the door to a flu pandemic...
...ripple effect of preterm births doesn't stop with the hard-hit baby and family. It costs employers 15 times more when employees have preemies, says a new March of Dimes study...
Though Tazewell has been particularly hard-hit, drug-related crime is booming across all of Virginia's coalfields. According to state crime data gathered by the FBI, from 1998 to 2003 the number of robberies, burglaries and larcenies jumped 131% in neighboring Buchanan County, 44% in Wise County, 62% in Lee County and 102% in Russell County. In Buchanan, where the jail typically holds more than twice the 34 inmates it was built to accommodate, the sheriff's department was so bogged down with drug-related crime that it dropped out of a four-county drug task force in order...