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Carolyn Zeiger is doing her best to reduce the impact their home makes on the desert. "Given the rate the desert is being gobbled up by people like us, my feeling is we need to put some back," she says, standing on her porch and pointing to the plants in her yard. "I put in native plants only--ocotillo, Arizona rosewood, desert willow, prickly pear. I start them with a little water, but soon they will survive on their...
...World Bank will take a step to turn that dream into a concrete reality. The Bank's executive board of directors will meet in Washington, D.C. on Thursday and is expected to endorse a controversial $1.25 billion hydroelectric dam that even developers admit will have major social and environmental impact. Yet the dam could earn the country $2 billion in revenue over a period of 25 years?money the government has promised it will use to pull its people out of poverty. That makes it a gamble the World Bank thinks is worth taking. "If revenues are channeled...
...with better track records of transparency and accountability. (It was only five years ago that Laos, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, agreed to publish its budget.) Huge trade and budget deficits are masked by a steady stream of foreign aid that, even donors admit, has had little impact on those who need it most. Three-quarters of Laos' population lives in poverty, half do not have access to electricity or clean water, and one in 10 children die before the age of five. According to one former senior western diplomat assigned to the capital: "The country is broken...
...example, it accounts for as much as 8% of gross domestic product. "The authorities must either take whatever steps are appropriate to persuade the Chinese to limit their appetite for the E.U. market or they will bear the heavy responsibility of further factory closures, rising unemployment and the resultant impact on tax and social security revenues," says Euratex President Filiep Libeert, who is urging the European Commission to limit Chinese exports by invoking a "safeguard clause." The E.U. is allowed to take such action under world trade rules if it deems that markets have become disorderly...
...list an address readers could use to alert compliance officers whenever retail sonographers set up shop in their community. Since then, a few states, including California and Illinois, have proposed legislation banning such ultrasounds. In the meantime, says Copel, "physicians can do a fair amount to blunt the impact of these places." If provided with a blank videotape beforehand, his staff will happily pop it into the VCR and record the sonogram for posterity. Some of his colleagues will do the same with DVDs. "But we do it only when there is a medical indication to do the ultrasound...