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While the Chinese government has been criticized for its draconian public-health response to swine flu - using quarantines, canceling school and detaining entire planeloads of people when a single passenger appears to have flulike symptoms - the country's officials say the strict measures helped stem the spread of flu. So far, China reports about 36 deaths and 62,800 H1N1 cases - compared with U.S. government estimates of 4,000 American deaths and 22 million infections. China plans to immunize 65 million citizens, or 5% of the country's population, by the end of the year. As in the U.S., health...
That's not to say the FHA has been a particularly graceful savior. In October an internal audit showed that as the agency amassed market share, it did a poor job of screening the thousands of new lenders sending it loans. A review of 22 approved applications found that only one contained all the required supporting documentation. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...visitors actually get into the country. The offices will serve as resources for both individual travelers and the travel industry, explaining visa regulations and entry requirements, offering destination data and sponsoring marketing campaigns. Most importantly, by promoting the entire nation - rather than a specific airline or destination - TPA supporters say the bill could entice up to 1.6 million additional tourists to visit America each year. That translates to an estimated $4 billion in economic benefits, potentially resulting in some 40,000 new jobs...
...committee of the Institute of Medicine headed by Kenneth Arrow, a winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics. The idea is that if the market is relied on to root out fake pills and bad treatments, the real drugs will come to dominate the supply. Supporters say competition between private pharmacies would keep prices low and prevent middlemen from simply pocketing the subsidies and continuing to sell fakes. "No one will want to sell counterfeits when the real doses are 5 cents," says Duong Socheat, director of Cambodia's National Malaria Center...
...Watching this campaign grow from a tiny operation in a small office with a half-dozen people to the largest, most organized political organization in history, and now being on the cusp of seeing Barack Obama take the oath of office, is surreal to say the least." - Reflecting on the Obama campaign during the transition. (The Georgetown Hoya...