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...figures, it will have almost tripled to $1.2 trillion. Some 40% of the world's population does not have adequate water and sewer systems, according to the U.N. And it's not just the developing world that needs to ramp up investment. The U.S. will have to spend as much as $41 billion a year until 2019 to maintain its water infrastructure, according to one Congressional Budget Office study--that's almost twice the $21.6 billion invested in 1999. "We've got thick pipes from the 19th century becoming obsolete at the same time as thinner ones laid after World...
...there is a striking change in the 2008 Republican presidential field. There are two candidates with strong religious credentials, Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, and both spend far more time talking about good works than about sin, although each has the requisite positions on abortion and gay marriage. Indeed, it was Huckabee who reminded me of Chesterton's lament. "I'm a 'grace' Christian," Huckabee told me over lunch recently, "not a 'law' Christian. The Second Commandment--do unto others--is the basic tenet of my faith. And so I believe that life...
...most specialists and surgeons, it is an important step in creating financial incentives for teaching. The success of this initiative is especially important for HMS because of its recently introduced—and much heralded—curricular reforms. Unlike nearly all other medical school programs, HMS students now spend their third year in a single hospital rather than rotating through several institutions. The reforms, designed to improve student relationships with patients and doctors, are simply untenable without expanded faculty involvement. Not surprisingly, the initial results of this increased student-faculty contact have been promising. Theoretically, these incentives would...
...grown baby, completely dependent on his witch of a wife,. The relationship between Sally Field and her husband—stepfather to the four kids—is odd in that it is completely non-existent. Although he complains about being cast aside, he makes absolutely no effort to spend time with his dying wife, making one question why his character exists at all. The film is shot like a documentary on death, and it alternates between the current moment and a home video recorded by Anita’s eldest son when she was in a healthier state...
...winning support from a delegate. But the last thing that state security officials want to see is thousands of petitioners ruining their carefully choreographed event. Having in many cases endured beating and imprisonment by provincial security officials, the thousands congregating in the area around the South Beijing Station spend weeks moving from place to place as police raid their tents and makeshift homes, hoping to send them home...