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Besser: What's really gratifying is to see the incredible work going on at CDC and around the country and to see that the efforts that have been undertaken are paying off and they are paying off in terms of the impact on people's health and lives...
Numerous Lebanese are facing a difficult choice in the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled to take place on June 7. According to the New York Times, donors from across the globe are pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into Lebanon in order to impact the elections. The Saudi Arabian government is involved, with an aim to buy votes in support of the election of Saad Hariri and his allies. For the average voter that could mean $800 or so in exchange for a vote—not to mention the dignity, free speech, and political rights that could also be taken...
...much as antipoverty campaigners like Bono harnessed the power of public opinion to push an Africa agenda at the 2005 G-8 summit. Blue State Digital, the Internet consultancy behind the hugely successful Web component of Obama's election campaign, is providing know-how and software to maximize the impact of the rain-forest campaign and mobilize supporters. The key, says Thomas Gensemer, managing partner of Blue State Digital, is to make everything so user-friendly that the message, not the medium, gets attention. "If you make the message accessible to people, whether you're Barack Obama, the Prince...
...Some even argue that because the provincial governments and a majority of municipal ones remain in the hands of the PNV, the change in government will have little impact. "Look, it's important that the PNV has been substituted, it's a sign of the health of our democracy" says Carmen Gurruchaga, author of several books on Basque nationalism. "But it's window-dressing. All the real power - which is to say the economic power - is still with...
...president's bellicose language underscores the uphill battle the nation has to fight to recover from being the epicenter of swine flu. Following the biggest shutdown in its recent history, the country will gradually get its cogs rolling again Wednesday. But the economic impact of the closures and lost tourism has already been calculated at $2.2 billion, according to Finance Minister Agustin Carstens. Mexico is also facing the suspension of flights and cancellations of visa application from countries across the globe, threatening trade and tourism further. And amid these challenges, the swine flu itself, although less deadly than feared...