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...globe in about four months - and that was before widespread jet travel.) The global manufacturing capacity for flu vaccine is around 500 million doses. That means that a new pandemic could well run its course and kill millions before anyone could get their hands on a new vaccine. Everyone - rich and poor - would be left out. At best, a previously stockpiled vaccine made from the current strain of H5N1 could provide some partial immunity, but there will be no way of knowing until the pandemic hits...
...than China, which remains a "black hole of bird flu data," according to the expert. But that goodwill will be squandered unless Indonesia resumes sharing. Unfortunately, Jakarta may be digging in its heels. Supari told TIME that "the current unfair access to vaccines worsens the global inequality between the rich and the poor, between the North and the South - and I think that is more dangerous than a pandemic." Unless Jakarta changes its policy, we might all get the chance to test out Supari's theory...
...about freedom. But as an earlier generation of American leaders realized, if freedom doesn't put food on the table, people will embrace tyranny. That's why the Truman Administration conceived the Marshall Plan: to help the fragile democracies of Western Europe improve their people's lives. Today the rich world needs to do something similar--provide the debt relief, open markets and foreign aid that really make a difference in a poor country. A couple of weeks ago, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama led the way by proposing that the U.S. double its foreign-aid spending...
...Boston Globe, analyzing hiring data it had obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reported that the ranks of the division were being filled with lawyers who had strong conservative credentials but little civil rights experience. That has shown up in the direction the division has taken, says Joseph Rich at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under...
...Rich, a former chief of the voting section in the civil rights division who worked at the Justice Department for 35 years before leaving in 2005, says that from 2001 to 2006, no voting discrimination cases were brought on behalf of African-American or Native American voters. Instead, he alleges, U.S.attorneys were told to give priority to voter-fraud cases, which civil rights groups have long contended are actually meant to depress voter turnout in minority communities...