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Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is the kind of germ that makes public-health officials go very pale when they talk about it. TB is bad enough, wasting bodies, ravaging lungs. The multi-- drug-resistant kind is worse. And XDR is the very rare but very awful strain that has all but exhausted the medical arsenal, leaving mainly faith and force as weapons: keep the patient isolated and hope that some treatment works against it, which happens in less than one-third of cases. The good news is that most people infected with the germ won't develop...
...point in downplaying a political crackdown because people will find out about it anyway, according to Martin Gainsborough, a political scientist and Vietnam expert at the University of Bristol in the U.K. Instead, the government is trying "to continually remind the public that these people are beyond the pale," Gainsborough says. "They need to keep the dissidents and the majority of citizens apart." The overall message: that activists are criminals, not dissidents - and that they are threatening Vietnam's stability...
...drain. The government has better things on which to spend money. A more appropriate means of targeting and reducing or eliminating illegal immigration is the demystification of the process to citizenship. If this process is made less complicated and easier to access, the incentives to immigrate illegally will pale beside the ease of the legal path to citizenship. Ultimately, however, there must be some process of selecting who will become a permanent resident and eventually a citizen. We believe that a system that puts a higher premium on skills better meets America’s demands than the status...
...Romney is, in many ways, the anti-McCain. Polished where McCain is rough, smiling where McCain grimaces, very, very tan where as McCain is pale. Romney's successes have come in large part due to a smooth manner and a gentle way with words; McCain has succeeded in politics despite lacking those skills...
...company will be known once Chrysler is driven off the lot, is forking over $675 million to make the deal happen--a remarkable repudiation of its $36 billion purchase of Chrysler nine years ago. And there's also no denying that the sums changing hands in the current transaction pale next to the $18 billion in health-care obligations that Chrysler owes its retirees...