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...Chinese have awakened to the ongoing train wreck between highly polluted rivers and aquifers and booming cities. "Every year, there are 20 million new urban Chinese," says Frérot. "The authorities have decided to commit as quickly as possible to improving their water and wastewater infrastructures." Veolia has 19 joint ventures in China, and Frérot says the company's short-term prospects there "look better than they do in the U.S." Suez has 21 ventures there after signing a deal to distribute water in Chongqing, China's fourth-largest city, with 32 million inhabitants...
...Civic activism. It's on the rise, and it's becoming better organized. ngos are working together, sharing information, holding joint events. They are drawing not just politicians but professionals and even some civic-minded businesspeople. These are smart folk who know what buttons to press and levers to pull. Already, by going to court, they have stopped the government from reclaiming even more land from what little harbor we have left. Now they are fighting for a host of causes, from fewer skyscrapers and roads to a minimum wage for low-skilled workers to patients' rights to better education...
...should have focused more on my support of the policy and less on my personal moral views." MARINE GENERAL PETER PACE Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after calling homosexuality immoral in a defense of the U.S. military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy
MARINE GENERAL PETER PACE, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after calling homosexuality immoral in a defense of the military's 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy...
...skin was very dark and that he had dark hair on his chest and head. Gerber is gray-haired. Helen Taylor, director of the crematorium, said she was unable to identify either corpse from the photographs, but she added that she found a hip socket and joint-replacement apparatus when she raked the bones out after the cremation. Neither Michael Gerber nor his wife was known to have had hip-replacement surgery. Forget about death. The only sure thing in life is taxes...