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...theirs and ours--must rally round to break it. These countries are too poor to doctor themselves. The drugs that could begin to break the cycle will not be available here until global pharmaceutical companies find ways to provide them inexpensively. The health-care systems required to prescribe and monitor complicated triple-cocktail regimens won't exist unless rich countries help foot the bill. If there is ever to be a vaccine, the West will have to finance its discovery and provide it to the poor. The cure for this epidemic is not national but international...
...precious metals and other reusable parts, it's still tough to make any money recycling PCs. Minus the cost of processing, the average used system is worth a measly $6 in raw materials, according to electronics recycler Envirocycle in Hallstead, Pa. The monitor is worth just $2.50. When IBM announced its consumer-PC recycling program last fall, it decided to have the carcasses shipped not to its 700,000-sq.-ft. recycling center in Endicott (where it mines corporate PCs for parts) but to an independent recycler 30 miles away. The reason: "Typically all that low-end stuff...
When components are too old to be salvaged, IBM ships them to specialists in plastic, metals and glass. At Envirocycle, which does monitors, the plastic cases are popped open, the power cables chopped off and the circuit boards removed. Next the glass is crushed into pieces and stripped of various coatings so it can be sent to monitor makers that will re-form the rubble into new displays. MBA Polymers in Richmond, Calif., feeds whole keyboards and joysticks into its machines. The metals get siphoned off, then the plastic is melted into tiny pellets, which are resold...
DIABETES DO'S Diabetics have a lot to be mindful of. They need to watch their weight, monitor blood-glucose levels and in some cases inject themselves daily with insulin. Most should also be popping a low-dose aspirin every day or so to ward off heart disease, but they aren't. Only one-quarter of diabetics who should be taking aspirin do so, a study finds...
...live in Northern California, you are learning that electricity can't be taken for granted. About 53% of home-heating systems in the U.S. use natural gas, which in past years has been the least expensive fuel. Gas also burns cleaner, and the furnaces are simpler to monitor than oil furnaces. Yet because parts of the U.S. (especially the Northeast) lack the infrastructure to transport natural gas, for many the main options are electricity and oil. Of the two, electricity is generally more expensive, less environmentally friendly...