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...Very well for the consumer, naturally. For airlines, the nightmare continues in a stream of profit warnings and shrunken timetables. This is, opines Richard Stirland, director general of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, "merely the end of the beginning" of the crisis. In Manila, a Philippine Airlines spokesman echoes the mood of many in aviation: "I've just come from a meeting, and I can tell you we can't see the end of the tunnel. When will schedules get back to normal? We can't think about anything except cost cutting right...
...rash action. After applying for a permit that allowed a party for 400 guests, according to HoCo representatives, the House sold 300 to 400 extra tickets. But they did not provide adequate crowd control, allowing hundreds of wet and wild scantily clad undergraduates and prefrosh to stream out into the cool night air. But the mistakes of one House on one night should not damage the social opportunities for the entire undergraduate population...
...seen in the village of Nanzhao in Hebei. There, the local clinic contains a wooden desk, several threadbare chairs and a bookshelf lined with antibiotics, steroids and painkillers. In most countries, such potent medications can only be dispensed by qualified specialists, but for the clinic they represent a revenue stream to a former barefoot doctor with no medical degree. The sole way of covering expenses at a place like this is to "charge for medicine," says village chief Li Jinghua. So medical workers often prescribe them unnecessarily. According to UNICEF, 60% of China's health-care spending goes to drugs...
...state of fairy-tale seclusion. By the time we finally crest a prayer flag-festooned summit and drop into the valley below, it's late afternoon. Beneath us are the handful of dwellings that shelter Yubeng's 65 ethnic-Tibetan inhabitants; in the crook of a slim, glacial stream, a white, sagging stupa glows in the low sunlight. The locals feed and water their livestock, while one of the women invites us to dinner cooked over an open hearth before showing us to the small wooden outbuilding reserved for travelers...
...melting of glaciers and increased precipitation in the north has poured fresh water into the Atlantic, in some places leaving a ten foot thick layer on the ocean surface, according to Terence Joyce, also of Woods Hole. As the lighter fresh water slows the sinking of the Gulf Stream as it hits these northern latitudes it reduces the pull that brings warm water northward. Scientists estimate that the speed of the conveyor in the far north has diminished by 20% since the 1970s. Coincidence? Perhaps, but the synchronous freshening of the North Atlantic, a less vigorous Gulf Stream...