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Since the new flu virus was officially declared a pandemic on June 11, the disease has spread faster in six weeks than past pandemics had spread in six months. Virtually every nation in the world has been infected, with the U.S. alone - which has 263 confirmed deaths, more than any other country - estimated to have logged more than 1 million cases. Although the good news is that most H1N1/09 illnesses have been extremely mild, the rapidity of its spread - and the fact that young people seem to be especially vulnerable - still worries global health officials. "We don't know...
...Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was going to be expensive. But the program's special inspector general, Neil Barofsky, thinks the U.S. government has bitten off more than it bargained for: on July 20, his office released a report estimating the $700 billion effort to shore up the nation's wobbly banking system could end up costing taxpayers as much as $23.7 trillion, due to estimates for programs offered by the FDIC, federal money for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other institutions on top of $7.4 trillion in TARP and other Treasury aid. A spokesperson for the Treasury Department quickly...
Until the nation's governors staged a public revolt last weekend, few people were paying attention to one of the most far-reaching proposals being considered as part of overhauling the health-care system: a dramatic expansion and redefinition of the Medicaid program. Redefining who is eligible for Medicaid would be one of the major means by which lawmakers hope to achieve universal health coverage - which is one of the reasons that governors, whose budgets are already straining under the program's growing costs, are so wary of the idea. "It depends on what's being proposed," says Pennsylvania...
...ministers from the two main parties in the coalition government are cited in the report for allegedly organizing meetings to gather gang militias who then evicted rival communities. Among those named are Kenya's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, a member of the Party of National Unity, and William Ruto, Agriculture Minister and an influential lawmaker from the Orange Democratic Movement. Kenyatta has not commented on the specific allegations. Ruto accused Western powers such as the U.S and the E.U. of interfering in Kenya, and said the nation had been subjected to constant intimidation. "Kenyans have solutions...
...Muzak at the glitzy Grand Indonesia mall competed with the chatter from shoppers taking advantage of a national holiday to stroll through one of Southeast Asia's largest malls. Last Friday, July 17, a pair of bombs ripped through two luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, killing seven innocent people (plus the two suicide bombers). Yet by July 20 local residents appeared to be returning to life as normal. Indonesia had enjoyed a four-year lull in terrorist attacks, in part chalked up to a concerted government campaign to arrest and re-educate extremists. Although the blasts jolted...