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...America and its grass-roots allies last week began running a TV commercial that shows a couple studying a summary of the plan. The husband concludes that the goal of setting a national ceiling on health-care spending could end up cutting off benefits to individuals. The wife, looking stricken, replies, ''There's got to be a better way.'' Such ads are having an effect. Immediately after Clinton's September speech, a Washington Post poll showed the public approved his ideas 56% to 24%. A follow-up survey last week found the spread is 51% to 39%. While the White...
...groups that make up the roughly 2 million WFP-aid recipients in the country. There are more than 170,000 refugees from neighboring countries, and nearly 1 million who have been "internally displaced" in northern Uganda by a long-running guerrilla war. Then there are the residents of drought-stricken Karamoja, as well as pregnant and nursing mothers and HIV/AIDS patients. A ballooning food budget, coupled with the off-again, on-again nature of donor funding, have threatened nearly every Uganda program at some point this year. "Prioritization is extremely difficult for us," Negash says, "because all these categories...
Kamadi, 23, lives in a fishing port on the east coast of India with her husband and 4-year-old daughter. All three are stricken with HIV. Kamadi learned she had AIDS in late 2005, when pregnant with her second child, which she aborted. Having been on ARVS, Kamadi now feels stronger, especially psychologically. Though she suffers bouts of depression, she has sought out a women's support group and meets regularly with these newfound friends. The group has given her an active social life and an even more valuable gift: self-confidence...
...stricken farmers face another wrenching decision: which of their long-time employees to send home. Diedrich has just laid off 25 employees, and he is hardly unique. The impact is noticeable in Firebaugh's community of some 7,500, mostly Latino farm workers. At noon on a Monday, the small town's streets are full of pickup trucks and vans that would normally be in the fields this time of year. Butch Fleming, who owns the town's Ag & Industrial Supply, gestures at his empty store, which he says is usually packed with customers. "Farmers don't know what they...
...Toshiaki is also central to their plans. When he tells Kiyomi that his article on mitochondria has been accepted by Nature, the mitochondria speak through her: "I knew you were the one I've been looking for." After Kiyomi dies, the grief-stricken Toshiaki hits on the creepy plan to keep a bit of her alive by culturing her liver cells. His obsessive love of his wife and his science blind him to the strangeness of what he's doing. But the mitochondria see a perfect opportunity and rejoice. They will harness his expertise in biotechnology to conquer the world...