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...change and deforestation. These are difficult factors to understand and predict," says Felipe Arreguin, under director of the National Water Commission. "We had to have the stoppages now to make sure that some supply can continue until the rain in June." The first two partial stoppages in February and March cut off water to hundreds of thousands. In the April action, the entire Cutzamala system will be shut down for 36 hours, before gradually resuming water pumping over several days...
...reverse the ban on stem-cell funding, and his Inaugural Address - in which he vowed to "restore science to its rightful place" - served notice that he would not wait long to do so. So it didn't come as a surprise to Catholics when, on the morning of March 9, the President signed an Executive Order allowing research on embryonic stem cells to go forward after an eight-year halt. Obama's forceful explanation for his decision, however, took them aback...
...their votes not because of his positions on social issues but because of concerns about the economy, health care and Iraq. Indeed, Catholics are more natural partners for Democrats than has been clear over the past three decades. A Gallup poll released in late March showed that Catholics are more liberal than other Americans when it comes to accepting a wide range of matters, such as homosexuality, gambling and out-of-wedlock births, and are far more likely to oppose capital punishment...
...Hopeful signs have indeed appeared. Retail sales are still growing at a robust 16% annual rate. The Purchasing Managers Index, an indicator of the health of the manufacturing sector, rebounded into positive territory in March after falling for months, indicating that industrial output may be expanding again. Home sales are also showing signs of recovery, as is lending. Even the stock market, which had plunged by some two-thirds from its peak in 2007, has clawed back 25% in the last few months. (See pictures of China's investment in Africa...
...Some aspects of China's glimmers of economic turnaround do seem as though they might offer hope to the country's trading partners. Take car sales, which rose in March for the third straight month, once again making China the largest market for automobiles in the world, ahead of the U.S. Those statistics, you'd think, would bring a smile to the faces of executives at beleaguered American carmaker GM, whose success in China in recent years has been about the only bright spot in its funereal performance...