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...favorite point of critics—estimates suggest that such programs have saved 1,000 lives since they were first introduced. Because a heroin overdose shuts down the part of the brain responsible for controlling breathing, waiting for the paramedics to arrive to inject naloxone wastes precious minutes during which a person stops breathing. Quite simply, naxolone distribution programs deserve to be supported on the federal level for their potential to save lives, which should be the first aim of governments when approaching public health or drug policy. The debate over naloxone is reminiscent of the debate over needle exchanges...
...water through other means like tube-wells or groundwater pumps. But even these rudimentary sources have been nearly exhausted. A 2005 World Bank report warned that if the government maintains its current policies, in 20 years the country will face a water crisis with violent regional clashes over the precious resource. Perhaps the most ominous aspect of this shortage is the remoteness of its relief. Thanks to a rapidly growing population, the demand for water is expected to double by 2050. Climate change will also have a long-term effect on the amount of glacial water supplying India?...
Huckabee's lack of money--Romney has outspent him in Iowa by about 20 to 1--hasn't hurt him yet, but he will need millions if he hopes to keep going. So he is devoting precious days to raising cash outside Iowa, making it harder to win converts on the prairie. It is the old flaw in the Iowa breakout strategy: How can anyone survive the abrupt transformation from guerrilla to gorilla? One day you're the Lone Ranger; the next, you're in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge. Unless you can morph into Patton...
Most reasonable students have long conceded the UC’s unmistakable lack of influence and power over most concerns of college life, aside from cutting precious few checks to the hundreds of ravenous student groups. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, UC aspirants and representatives remain impervious to this logic...
...most of the last six months, the Giuliani high command has spent considerable time trying to decide how to deploy its most precious assets - its money, its best organizers and the candidate himself - in the early primary states. It has been a complex - and shifting - calculation for a Republican who got in relatively late, comes from a blue city in a blue state, tilts to the center on abortion and homosexuality and has a name that ends with a vowel. And so, Team Giuliani has already passed through several stages on the path to nirvana...