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...CNPC swooped in with an offer reportedly 17% higher--and snatched the deal away. "The Chinese are definitely very aggressive in the price they are willing to pay," says R.S. Butola, managing director of ONGC Videsh. Beijing has demonstrated that it is willing to face down international pressure to protect its energy interests. Last month the U.N. discussed imposing sanctions on Sudan as punishment for sponsoring genocide in Darfur. China--which has invested a reported $15 billion in Sudan oil projects and imports oil from there--threatened a veto. The Security Council passed a watered-down measure...
...rising health-care costs? So far, the Bush Administration says it will not allow large-scale reimportation of prescription drugs from Canada, where they are 60% to 70% cheaper, unless the U.S. can guarantee that they are safe. Critics call the Bush policy a delaying tactic designed to protect drug companies' profits. The federal Task Force on Drug Importation must submit its report on safety by Dec. 8. When it does, Thompson could authorize reimportation, a move that would appease those who clamored for it during the campaign. Drugmakers, meanwhile, trying to block an end run around their U.S. business...
...mostly economic - of households that include six or more members. Bucking Italy's low fertility rate of 1.29, large families suffer from the same inadequate social policy that demographers blame for discouraging others from having more children: inadequate child care and family leave policy, insufficient tax breaks and no protection against rising housing costs. But le famiglie numerose are also exposed to things smaller families are not: water, garbage and electricity rates that increase progressively as consumption rises; restaurants that suddenly run out of tables when all those kids walk in the door; landlords who squeeze out crowded families through...
...policy goes beyond the extra mile to protect everyone’s dignity,” she said. “But public health and safety has to be our first priority...
...Denver No people can build a just society on 3,000 to 4,000 abortions a day. A nation that tolerates killing innocent children in the womb forfeits any claim as a beacon of freedom. I hope the President will use his second term to limit abortion and protect the unborn child in every way possible...