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...their dismissal. Happily, for him, doom does not come a-knocking at his door. As the movie would have it, Vermeil resists everyone's advice and opts for Papale's spirit over the perhaps greater skills of another player, and Vince makes the team, hanging on to the lower edges of the roster for three seasons. It is not much, but it is something...
...year ago. A native of China's eastern Shandong province, he had come to Shanghai to publicize the plight of women who had been forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations as part of the nation's family-planning campaign. Although China has tried for more than two decades to lower its population through its "one-child policy," the coercive measures used in Shandong's Linyi region are now illegal. Chen's mission seemed reasonable at the time: If he could only alert higher-level officials to what rogue local bureaucrats were doing to try to meet low population targets, surely...
...idea was that the companies would dramatically cut the cost of AIDS drugs they sold to the developing world; in return, the governments of 58 countries so far have guaranteed that they would make large purchases and otherwise help the companies to lower their costs. In those countries, the price of AIDS drugs has fallen from $2,000 a year in some cases to as low as $140, and an additional 400,000 people are now receiving treatment...
...Asia." But several economic shocks?including the tech-stock crash of 2000 and the 9/11 terrorist attacks the following year?prompted the world's central bankers to slash interest rates in an effort to revive economic growth. With returns on savings deposits falling to around 1% (or even lower in Japan), Asia's wealthy were roused to seek alternatives. Today, they tend "to expect a lot more return from their investments" than investors do in other regions, says Shih of UBS. Clive Bannister, the London-based CEO of HSBC Group Private Banking, notes that Asians are more "hands...
PROTECTION REBUILDING THE LEVEES Hurricane Katrina caused 50 major breaches of levees and flood walls in New Orleans, toppling this wall, now rebuilt, along the Lower Ninth Ward. The ensuing flood covered 80% of New Orleansup to 20 ft. deep in some places. The government has reconstructed and in some areas even raised the height of the breached levees, but the system is designed to withstand only a Category 3 hurricane. Category 5 is the worst...