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...more people are losing their jobs, are vulnerable to losing their health care. Our deficits are even bigger, which means the load on Medicare and Medicaid is just going to get worse. If we don't do this now, we are going to be in a world of hurt later...
...Postcard: Bristol Bay," Bryan Walsh points out that if the Pebble Mine is built, it will produce billions in precious-metal wealth and create needed jobs [July 27]. But at what cost? Experts say it will foul the air and water and hurt salmon runs, among other atrocities. And the benefits will be exhausted within 50 years. I'm all for a sustainable resource like fish, which will bring jobs and provide profits for many more years to come. Also, there's great potential to earn cash through things like solar cells, especially in the land of the midnight...
...that they pay. We don't want pink parking spots." What South Korean women do want, says Cho, is to see more choices for child care so that they don't lose jobs to men when they have families. And a few more female taxi drivers wouldn't hurt either...
This is Tsvangirai's gamble. He wants the people who tried to kill him to believe he bears no grudge. (Since his wife died in March in a car accident in which he was also hurt, Tsvangirai finds himself repeatedly assuring his supporters that the crash was not another murder attempt.) He wants Zimbabweans and the world to rethink how they deal with Mugabe and other African Big Men. Demonizing them may be principled and cathartic, Tsvangirai believes, but it is ineffective. Criticism has done nothing to dislodge Muammar Gaddafi in Libya (in his 40th year in power...
...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 the rest of the world...