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...development projects.) But those costs may be paltry compared, in an extreme case, to the more than $81 billion in damages after Hurricane Katrina swept floodwaters into New Orleans and the gulf coast. Yesterday's pipe explosion in Manhattan may cost New York City millions not only in repair and police and fire department overtime but in likely lawsuits from businesses and individuals...
Obama's phenomenal fund-raising success--not just the total he's collected but also the number of individual contributors--reflects, I think, a hunger in many citizens to be personally associated with something that speaks well about our country. Whoever becomes President in 2009 will have to repair all the damage that George W. Bush's Iraq war and the arrogant, contemptuous way it has been conducted have done to the world's view of our country. But a President with the middle name Hussein and a father born in Kenya will have a large head start. Not because...
...lick of paint since the Portuguese colonials decamped in the 1970s. There are few phone lines and almost no electricity. Even the President's office building has a generator roaring outside. The judicial police headquarters has no working communications radio, computer or phone. Its four police cars all need repair, and there is no money for fuel. In theory, police officers earn about $100 a month. But - like the nation's judges, soldiers, bureaucrats and Cabinet Ministers - they have not been paid since January. Civil servants received only three months' pay last year. The country also has no prison...
...meantime, which have already claimed the lives of 14 astronauts, continue to accumulate wear as they limp toward the 2010 deadline when the station is set to be completed and they'll be allowed to retire. In the next several days, Atlantis astronauts will undertake a risky spacewalk to repair a thermal blanket that pulled up from a small section of one of the shuttle's engines - possibly exposing it to damage during reentry. Their first-line tools for this important work? Staples scrounged from the shuttle's medical kit. If ever a pair of government programs cried...
...compared to turning lead into gold-raises the possibility that scientists might one day be able to reprogram a patient's own adult cells to transform into human embryonic stem cells and then into heart, nerve or any other kind of tissue. That could give doctors the ability to repair or replace cells destroyed by disease or injury, without fear of immune-system rejection. Experts were quick to warn that significant hurdles remained before the technique might ever be used in people, but the sheer simplicity of Yamanaka's discovery-he found just four genes were required to reprogram...