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As the flu-vaccine shortage began, Canada quickly emerged as a potential life buoy. Ujjal Dosanjh, Canada's Health Minister, personally phoned Tommy Thompson, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, and offered to share whatever surplus Canada had to help meet the 48-million-dose shortfall. "I assured him that if there was anything we could do to assist our American friends, we would be happy to do that," Dosanjh told TIME. But it wasn't long before Dosanjh was spelling out the limits of what his country could do. "Canada cannot be the drugstore of the United...
...high-school summer job at a tennis pro shop with my cheap boss who wouldn’t buy decent office equipment. The sound is coming from beneath the futon. The world slides into focus, and I realize that my roommates and I put the Harvard-installed, Hotline-surplus red phone under the futon so it wouldn’t get in the way. Conveniently, now everything is in the way of me getting...
...then received an audit asking how much surplus vaccine would become available, and the UHS senior management team decided to make the sale...
...personal investment accounts to Social Security is likely to hurt America’s youth. If payroll taxes from current workers are diverted to personally-owned stocks and bonds, there is no way to pay benefits to current retirees without digging into the deficit. Having turned the largest budget surplus into the largest budget deficit in history, to the point that every man, woman and child in America owes $25,000, Bush has not established a shred of credibility when it comes to fiscal responsibility. His misguided approach to reforming social security is likely to add to the deficit...
...Bush will meet with Hu at the APEC summit in Chile this month. The meeting will dwell on economics, a bone of contention between Washington and Beijing that Bush will have to address. China enjoyed a trade surplus with the U.S. of nearly $99 billion through August, and American industrial lobbies accuse China's low-cost labor force of stealing American jobs. Trade conflicts could strike early, as quotas on China's textile exports will end on Dec. 31. While Beijing is looking forward to selling more silks and underwear, the U.S. still enjoys "surge-protection" clauses that...