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Moreover, John Paul's very public health woes may prompt the Cardinals to push his successor to impose a mechanism to avoid another pontificate slowed by illness. Ratzinger, who has sought ways to adapt church governance for modern times, might be willing to agree to an age limit and pass on the job after a few years. --By Jeff Israely
...Indonesian fishing villages. In any event, the earthquake reminded us--had we been foolish enough to forget it--that there are primal forces of nature that no amount of our wizard technology is able to confine. Yet technology can help. For decades, a sophisticated early-warning system has helped limit catastrophic damage from tsunamis in the Pacific. So, in the aftermath of the Sumatran earthquake, it was natural to ask whether anything could have been done to mitigate the disaster. And that is a question whose answer requires an understanding of what, precisely, happened on the morning...
Delta is also making major changes to its operations. At its home base in Atlanta, the airline is overhauling its entire schedule, hoping to limit future flight disruptions and delays. The airline will add 81 more flights and seven new destinations from Atlanta, but will spread all the flights out more over the day. It's a late Christmas present, but a welcome...
Asthma, for all the problems it causes, is an eminently controllable condition, provided children take their medications, limit exposure to allergens and visit their doctor regularly. Nonetheless, Asthma Action America--a national education organization composed of 21 health groups, including the American Lung Association and the American College of Emergency Physicians--reported last week that 54% of asthmatic American children had a severe attack in the past year, and 27% had at least one attack so severe they feared they were going...
...study, which was the result of a survey of 41,000 households, came up with other troubling numbers: 23% of asthmatic kids made at least one trip to the emergency room in the past year; 54% missed some school or day care; 62% had to limit their activities as a result of their condition. "With today's treatments," says Dr. William Sears, professor of pediatrics at the University of California at Irvine and a consultant in the study, "these kids should be symptom free most of the time...