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...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...
...this threat is a recently discovered vulnerability of the Gulf Stream. The current, dubbed the Blue God by author William MacLeisch, warms much of Europe and eastern North America by bringing enormous amounts of tropical water northward as part of the "great ocean conveyor" that distributes heat around the world. As this warm water moves north, evaporation makes it saltier and heavier. By the time the stream has reached the far northern waters between Norway and Greenland it has given up most of its heat, and this salty, heavy water plunges into the abyss, pulling more water behind...
...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...
...hundred ducks for her biology thesis, she ordered 15 duck eggs on the internet, and spent the next 28 days rotating the eggs. The adorable babies pecked their way out of their eggs and started walking around. Our room turned into a campus petting zoo, with a steady stream of pet-deprived students from all over campus peering in to “see the babies,” including the nightly swims the 15 baby ducks took in our shower...