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...each rainy season, laid low by diarrhea, a disease which kills an astonishing 1.6 million children under 5 every year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). "Death is roaming here," says Traoré, 28. "It seems the children who have died are more than the children who live." (See pictures of of how zinc is saving lives in Mali...
Turns out the terms may have been too rich. Cash for clunkers (the official name is Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save, a.k.a. CARS, but nobody calls it that) had customers scrambling to car dealerships in droves after it went live on July 27. Despite being in effect for only a few days, the program helped drive July auto sales to an annualized rate of 11.2 million vehicles, from just 9.7 million in June. In reaction, Wall Street economists have ratcheted up forecasts for third-quarter economic growth...
...says Askins. (He learned on his other site, Teeter Talk - word-for-word transcriptions of interviews with local figures on the couple's teeter-totter.) The Chronicle, says Morgan, has about 20,000 unique visitors a month and draws enough advertisers and donations for the two of them to live off. "A lot of people don't want to read an 8,000-word piece on the city council," says Askins, smiling gently behind his foot-long beard and granny glasses, "but they want it to be there...
...thank you for your essay "Dying Together" [Aug. 3]. I find Sir Edward Downes' decision to end his life perfectly rational and objective. To live only because your heart and lungs still work seems to me an inadequate justification for longevity. John Mulholland, ALPHARETTA...
...year anniversary of their bloody five-day war in South Ossetia approaches. Russia has beefed up its military presence on the Georgia--South Ossetia border in response to what officials call Georgian military provocations. Only Russia and Nicaragua recognize the independence of South Ossetia, where many Georgians still live in scattered enclaves...