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...their part, business groups and many conservatives remain even more opposed to the possibility of EPA regulation of greenhouse gases than they do to a cap-and-trade bill. They say CO2 is far more prevalent than any other pollutant the EPA has ever attempted to regulate under the Clean Air Act and that top-down regulation would lay a heavy burden on U.S. business. "An endangerment finding from the EPA could result in a top-down command-and-control regime that will choke off growth by adding new mandates to virtually every major construction and renovation project," said...
...child. That breaks down to $381 to $544 a day, including hotel, some meals, transportation, tours and activities, but not airfare. On average, Disney packages cost roughly 10% more than other similarly posh family tours. "I am a Disney fan, but I must say, I was shocked by their pricing," says travel-guidebook writer (and mother of two) Pauline Frommer. "They don't seem to be doing anything extraordinary to justify these additional costs...
...experts say the huge disparity comes because most diarrhea victims are poor children--invisible to politicians--and because diarrhea itself makes people squeamish. As Time pointed out in an international cover story three years ago, celebrities don't hold concerts for diarrhea. "Compared with malaria and AIDS, we are totally underfunded," says Fontaine. "This is truly a neglected disease...
...their part, government officials say Mali's chronic shortage of skills severely hampers efforts to launch new programs. "Mali is vast, and the level of knowledge is basic," says Adama Diawara, a ranking official at the Ministry of Health, adding that before approving zinc, "we needed evidence that it worked...
...doesn't have to go far to find that. In Morola, a village of some 500 people nestled among mango trees near the Guinea border, locals say diarrhea deaths have fallen sharply since zinc tablets were distributed last year. When I visited in May, the village chief gathered five women to talk about their lives. The group had lost seven children among them, four to diarrhea. Kinza Diallo, 29, said that when her 1-year-old daughter contracted diarrhea in 2004, she clutched her on the back of a motorbike for the hour's ride to the nearest hospital, where...