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...will take two weeks to repair the damage caused by activists of the Shiv Sena party who want to stop any rapprochement with Pakistan. ?But the government will make sure the game goes ahead,? says McGirk, ?because Prime Minister Vajpayee has given in too many times to extremists.? Of course, the Shiv Sena action could be seen as a bid to sway the match -- a damaged pitch would more likely favor India?s spin bowlers than it would Pakistan?s pace...
...Gorom, the youngest of the octuplets, underwent abdominal surgery yesterday to repair a tear in her intestine. Ebuka, the firstborn, and Ikem, the firstborn boy, are breathing with the assistance of a ventilator. Chidi, Echerem, Chima and Jioke are breathing on their...
...sugar production in Florida, part of your series on corporate welfare [Nov. 23], leveled numerous false charges against all Florida sugar farmers. Far from polluting the Everglades, sugar farmers have made their runoff water twice as clean as the legal standard. The $3 billion-to-$8 billion Everglades repair cost is for replumbing the entire water system of South Florida, where the population has grown tenfold since the system's construction in the 1950s, with suburbs pushing out farmland. Sugar farmers have spent millions meeting one of the nation's toughest water-quality standards. Rather than sparing sugar...
...Quite a number of legislators, economists and think tanks have been working for several years, trying to focus attention on this widespread, wasteful and escalating practice. It is having a serious negative impact on our distressed urban areas, as well as diverting resources from education, research and needed infrastructure repair and maintenance. In short, it is impairing the systemic efficiency of our country, and will put us at a disadvantage in global competition in terms of price and quality, unless, of course, our foreign competition emulates our practices. CHARLES F. HORN State Senate Columbus, Ohio...
...subsidy has had one other consequence: it has helped create an environmental catastrophe in the Everglades. Depending on whom you talk to, it will cost anywhere from $3 billion to $8 billion to repair the Everglades by building new dikes, rerouting canals and digging new lakes...