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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...
...encouraged the world's poor women to plant 30 million trees. The other creates incendiary fables of female sexuality and subjugation. They make an odd couple, but last week they were united as Nobel laureates: Kenya's Wangari Maathai for the Peace Prize and Austria's Elfriede Jelinek for Literature. It was the second year in which women won both of the most notable Nobels...
...shortage? Contamination problems in a Liverpool, England, plant prompted the British government to suspend the license of Chiron Corp., one of only two companies making flu vaccines for the U.S. market. Chiron was supposed to supply 46 million to 48 million of the U.S.'s total order of 100 million doses...
WHAT WE KNOW NOW Iraq probably destroyed all or most of its agents in 1991 and '92, and hadn't shown any interest in biowarfare after it destroyed its al-Hakam bioweapons plant in '96. It now appears that the trailers the U.S. found in May 2003 weren't labs; they were intended for launching hydrogen weather balloons...