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...year, as it has done for six years straight. Schools lack teachers and textbooks. Hospitals hardly function, deprived of basic medicines, supplies, nurses and physicians. Most gas stations lay idle. There is no paper on which to print bank notes, and people stand in long lines trying to obtain cash from banks. Unemployment is over 80 percent, and many hundreds of thousands of farm workers are without any work whatsoever...
...Eventually you could reach the point where you're declined because you're so far overweight that no one is going to insure you," says Simons. Obese Americans also face higher charges for disability insurance--if they are able to obtain...
...amazing gold in them thar tourists became evident, Asia greedily tore down barriers to foreign travel. Over a decade, China went from being a xenophobic recluse to a tourism junkie . Vietnam pursued a parallel course; visas for travel there, formerly very difficult to obtain, were suddenly not a problem. The Western boom in Thai cuisine and a massive promotional campaign made the Thai kingdom a hot destination; the buoyant rise of tourism in Bali in the early 1990s encouraged the building of resorts in new destinations in the Indonesian archipelago, such as in neighboring Lombok. Even creepy Burma tried...
...thought [denying our request] was very suspicious,” Reardon said. “Over the course of the summer, several editors and I have continued conversations regarding the possibility of a legal route to obtain the requested information...
...former Administration official who worked with Joseph at the NSC describes him less charitably as "an ideologue." But it is his version of how those 16 words made it into the State of the Union that some Republican members of the House and Senate intelligence committees are eager to obtain under oath. That has become especially interesting now that Tenet reportedly acknowledged when he testified last week before the Senate Intelligence Committee that the questionable line in the text had not been brought to his attention. The White House, however, doesn't like the idea of Joseph's heading...