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...HYDROPOWER: Current percentage: 7.7% Percentage in 2010: 24-29% MAJOR PROJECTS: The controversially gargantuan Three Gorges Dam will be the biggest power plant in the world when it is completed in 2009. China is also building another major hydroelectric project, the Longtan hydropower station on the Pearl River, which is slated for 2009 completion...
...Indian environmentalists say the outside world shouldn't treat their country as a dump for hazardous waste. But the importers share blame?war-zone scrap is among the cheapest on the market?as do government regulators. "Look outside," says Akram, a supervisor at the Ghaziabad plant where the workers died, pointing to the rubbish-strewn and excrement-paved street next to the factory: "We can blame the world. But it's not like we help ourselves much, either...
...vaccines sparked consumer panic. U.S. drug company Chiron, which produces almost half the 100 million doses for the U.S., had earlier said it would not be able to deliver any this year after British authorities suspended Chiron's license, saying that the process used in a Liverpool plant didn't meet British standards. Enter France's Aventis Pasteur, Chiron's main rival, which has already distributed more than 33 million of 55 million doses of Fluzone in the U.S. this season. The firm is working to distribute the rest to the neediest cases. But Aventis won't make extra money...
...quiet country refuge transforms into a station of some nightmarish and unknown plot. Harper’s futile attempts at explanation and soothing stiffen the audience’s resolve that something is terribly wrong, but plant the seeds of doubt that things aren’t necessarily that clear...
Contamination at the Chiron Corporation plant in Liverpool, England, which manufactures about 50 percent of the United States’ flu vaccination supply, caused the shortage...