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WORKERS Live about six weeks Literally worked to death, they care for young, clean and protect the hive, forage for food and die when their wings wear...
...wave of sectarian violence that followed, with Shi'ite mobs wreaking vengeance on Sunnis. "It sounded like Sunnis were being slaughtered in the streets of Baghdad," Waddah says. "I was worried about my family. They were new to the city and had no influential relatives who could protect them." While waiting to use the toilet over the next few days, the captives whispered rumors of how their Sunni kidnappers were taking revenge by killing some of the Shi'ite captives. Waddah says at least two captives he knew to be Shi'ite disappeared abruptly. At his next session...
...given first to key workers like police and nurses, then to those who would respond best to treatment--healthy 15-to-40-year-olds, not infants or seniors. "A worst-case scenario poses the hardest questions," says panelist Karen Gervais, a health-care ethicist. This strategy "is intended to protect the most people in the most vital ways." But the panel also decided that society's weakest could and should be helped in other ways, such as quarantine...
...think the investment industry is there to protect you, think again. Many firms see a hot sector as an opportunity to gather assets. Before the tech-stock peak in 2000, the industry marketed nearly 500 technology, telecom and Internet funds. It's the same story now, only the actors have changed. In October 2004, 180 hedge funds were dedicated to energy and commodity investments. Today there...
...This is déjà vu, I said to myself when I saw the pictures of a flood of trash floating on a Jakarta river and bike commuters wearing masks to protect themselves from toxic diesel fumes in Kanpur, India. Those are the same scenes we saw in Kitakyushu and other cities in the 1960s and '70s, when Japan was notorious as the archipelago of kogai, or environmental disruption. I was one of the victims of the choking smog at that time. Asians are starting to put more pressure on their governments to tackle staggering environmental problems, but time...