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...welfare payments to another 8%. More recently, Berlin erred by extensively subsidizing the construction of office buildings and apartments. Politicians predicted the city would become a hub for German business when the government moved from Bonn in 1999, but the boom never materialized. The result: more than 1 million sq m of office space now sits empty and many of the 210,000 new subsidized apartments are unrented. Yet new buildings are still going up. One of the hardest hit areas is the public school system. Over 2,000 teachers retire each year - and they're not being replaced. Frogard...
...sq.-mi. expanse of Arizona, high malpractice premiums have prompted six obstetricians to stop delivering babies. Many women now have to drive an hour or more to reach a hospital with a delivery room, forcing several, like Melinda Sallard, 22, to give birth in the car en route to the hospital. Seniors in parts of Pennsylvania travel an hour or two to see a neurosurgeon, and one orthopedic surgeon from Philadelphia commutes every week to see patients in the Midwest, where malpractice-insurance costs are lower. Emergency rooms from Orlando, Fla., to Belleville, Mo., report that rising insurance premiums...
...Bisbee, an old mining town just 26 miles northwest of Douglas. But when six family practitioners decided they couldn't afford the soaring malpractice premiums required for them to keep delivering babies, the hospital was forced to close its delivery room. Suddenly rural Cochise County, a 6,000-sq.-mi. expanse of mountains and desert along the Mexican border, had but one delivery room left for its 118,000 residents. It is in Sierra Vista, 50 miles northwest of Valdez's home. Which means that a week before her Aug. 4 due date, Valdez will pack her bags and camp...
...Herbfarm in Woodinville, Wash., each day's menu is set only hours before the meal in order to take advantage of the day's harvest from the restaurant's 6,000-sq.-ft. garden. Chef Benjamin Ford maintains an organic garden in his backyard for his Beverly Hills, Calif., restaurant Chadwick, which is named for legendary gardener Alan Chadwick, the man who is credited with bringing biodynamic organic gardening...
...source of the problem is geography. Venice is primarily a small cluster of interlocked islands set in the northern end of a 207-sq.-mi. lagoon. A long ridge of land separates the lagoon from the far larger Gulf of Venice except at three major inlets. These openings allow high gulf tides to become high Venetian tides, with the water sometimes climbing far enough to swamp the city's seawalls...